[rfc] Readonly/mirror branches

[John Arbash Meinel]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> I've been thinking about my workspace, and I have a bunch of mirrors of
>> other people's projects. And I was thinking that it would be nice to
>> mark all of those mirrors as non-committable, but that I can update them
>> from their parents.
>> (So pull is allowed, but commit is not).
> 
> I think that bound branches should work for this.  I know that it
> presently doesn't.
> 
> That means that we should fix bzr checkout to work when the source is a
> readonly branch.
> 
> I'm willing to be convinced that mirrors should be something different
> from bound branches, but so far, I haven't heard a convincing argument.
> 
> Aaron
> 

I'm willing to agree with this. Though it means you can't 'mirror a
mirror' since we don't permit multiple levels of binding. But we don't
allow it because of the commit-time issues, which shouldn't be too much
of a problem for this use case.

John
=:->


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