Pure light checkout?

[Thomas Badran]

I use this exact workflow now for managing a few websites using:

bzr checkout --lightweight

I then push up to repo, and have a script that logs in to the server and
does a bzr update from within the directory.

Tom

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 17:25 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Would it be possible to add a checkout option that does nothing else
> but
> 
> - retrieves only the HEAD of all files of a branch
> - Records the repository location from where the checkout was done
> 
> It would not be possible to do anyhing else but viewing the contents
> of that "pure Checkout" directory or asking to "pull" and overwrite
> all the files (no merge, just straight overwrite).
> 
> USE CASE
> ========
> 
>                 Repo
>                / \
>           Devel   Host
> 
> At "Devel" you develop the software. You push to "Repo" when you
> consider "Devel" is stable. At "Host", you do no development
> whatsoever, no changes, nothing, else my deploy the files.
> 
> Cases applicaple:
> 
> - Publishing web pages
> - Publishing documentation
> - Viewing latest source files
> - Doing a packaging work of upstream snapshot
> 
> Jari
>