[RFC] make checkouts as much like bound branches as possible

[Olaf Conradi]

On 28/03/06, Olaf Conradi <oohlaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/03/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > Olaf Conradi wrote:
> > > With lightweight checkouts as bound branches he can't use this
> > > construct. If he wants to put everything in a local shared repository
> > > he can't bind to the remote one and has to push everything.
> >
> > Perhaps the solution to that is to make bound branches support this.
> > It's certainly something their API can represent, and apparently people
> > like Erik want to use bound branches wherever I would use lightweight
> > checkouts.

Hmm, let me rephrase this:

A lightweight checkout with a bound branch has the benefit of
unbinding and taking your laptop offline, as the lightweight checkouts
were part of a local shared repository.

A lightweight checkout from a remote shared repository can't do that.

A normal checkout (bound branch) can, but that isn't part of a shared
repository.

So I would prefer our current situation of allowing one to bind a
lightweight checkout.

Cheers
 -Olaf