[MERGE/RFC] Checkouts help topic.

[Aaron Bentley]

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James Westby wrote:
> As in bzr checkout . for when you forgot trees, or minimising working
> trees by only checking out ones that you want? I think you mean the
> latter. I was thinking of including the former in the repositories help
> topic.

I do mean the latter.  I don't think it needs to be long, just enough to
get interested users looking for more info.

>>The fact that a heavy branch contains a local copy of remote data is
>>more important than the fact that the local copy is represented as a branch.
> 
> 
> Yes, that sounds fair. I think it still needs to be clear it is a branch
> lower down, but shouldn't start with that.

Right.

>>Lightweight checkouts work best when you have fast, reliable access to
>>the master branch.  So if the master is on the same disk or on a LAN, a
>>heavyweight checkout will tend to be bigger and slower than a
>>lightweight checkout.
> 
> 
> ...for initial creation?

And commit, and anything else that updates the repository, because
heavyweight checkouts have two repositories to update, while lightweight
checkouts only have one.

Aaron
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