[RFC] info output light vs heavy checkouts .

Wouter van Heyst larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org
Thu Jun 15 17:36:52 BST 2006


On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:50:08AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> A light checkout of a branch in a repository looks like this:
> 
>  light checkout root: foo
>    shared repository: bar
>    repository branch: gam
> 
> 
> with a normal checkout of the same branch, it looks like this:
>        checkout root: foo
>   checkout of branch: bar/gam
> 
> 
> I'm not clear why these dont look more similar - the heavyweight one
> could look like:
>        checkout root: foo
>    shared repository: bar
>    repository branch: gam
> 
> 
> This would make some code simpler, and IMO is more understandable.
> 
> Thoughts?

The non-repository are already similar, making the repository cases
similar to each other is good too. 

Wouter van Heyst




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