Pure light checkout?

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:22 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> writes:
> 
> > 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
> >
> > Thats what checkout --lightweight does.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > The other things you ask for - the inability to do various options - is
> > more tricky (...) because you want policy enforced?
> 
> That too. Like:
> 
>     bzr co --lightweight --read-only
> 
> which then would prevent updating anything from that location to the
> repo. Perhaps a flag would be stored, which bzr would detect for any
> 'ci' operations.

I'm not sure if its worth the complexity - just using a read only
account or url to do the checkout will give you the inability to alter
the repository.

-Rob
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