What do I call a working tree that stores its revisions in a shared repository?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Ah, sorry. I see. My point was different - I don't like shared
>> > repositories because of the organisational limitations they impose, so
>> > I prefer to use standalone branches. However, they are too slow to
>> > use, so to get a reasonable level of speed back, I'm considering using
>> > an OS copy rather than a bzr branch.
>> 
>> I suggest the following hack:

> Why not use lightweight checkouts instead of this hack?

Not sure how that would work since it seems this requires to still have
a branch underneath the repository.  Are you suggesting something like:

   bzr repo-init ~/var/bzr-foo
   bzr clone <bar> ~/var/bzr-foo/bar
   (cd ~/var/bzr-foo/bar; bzr remove-tree)
   bzr checkout --lightweight ~/var/bzr-foo/bar <anywhere>

Would this work?
The thing is: I don't have a clear enough understanding of lightweight
checkouts to figure out whether it would behave identically to what
I proposed (what happens when you do `bzr merge', `bzr pull', `bzr
push'?).


        Stefan