[PATCH] checkout --help

[John Arbash Meinel]

Robey Pointer wrote:
> 
> On 5 May 2006, at 20:57, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
>> Robey Pointer wrote:
>>> Just noticed this today: Doing 'bzr checkout --help' still documents a
>>> '--basis' option which is not accepted and wouldn't do anything even if
>>> it was.  Attached patch removes the documentation lines and comment.
>>>
>>> robey
>>>
>>
>> Rather than removing the option, we could actually re-activate the
>> functionality. 'bzr branch' supports --basis, and checkout is very
>> similar to 'bzr branch'. It does a few things differently (creates a
>> branch, and then does 'bind' which does a pull, versus doing 'sprout').
>>
>> But honestly, we could do a standard sprout, and then do the bind.
>>
>> If someone knows how to use --basis, it seems like a decent performance
>> improvement to not have to copy everything from the remote location.
> 
> We could resurrect it post-0.8 -- the help text will always be in the
> branch history. ;)  It's just a little confusing to see it now when the
> --basis option doesn't actually exist.
> 
> robey

I'm fine with handling it either way. I don't know if people use --basis
a lot. I generally don't, but mostly because I always used "bzr branch
local newlocal; cd newlocal; bzr pull --overwrite --remember remote".
Now with repositories it is even less important.
Because either I already have a copy of the remote files which will be
re-used. Or I need to get everything anyway.

John
=:->


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