Lightweight branches?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Couldn't he also use a lightweight checkout of the branch to achieve
> what he wants without having to use a repository?

A checkout isn't a substitute for a branch.  It's a working tree for
that branch.  If you create a checkout and you commit, the commit goes
into that branch, assuming you have write permissions.  It sounds like

1. he doesn't have write permissions
2. he wants to work on a feature branch

For both of those reasons, a checkout is not appropriate.

Even without those reasons, lightweight checkouts are only really
appropriate if you have a fast network connection.  Otherwise, most
operations are horribly slow.

Aaron
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