Evaluating Bazaar in a CVS environment.

[Andy Walker]

John Arbash Meinel <john <at> arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> The idea that I presented was to allow you to have 1 lightweight
> checkout, that you can switch between branches. So you only have a small
> number of copies (I personally like to always have a checkout of HEAD,
> and then one for what I'm working on.)
> 
> But I have 30+ branches on my local disk, and in total they only take up
> ~100KB of disk space. Versus the 20MB working tree checkout.
Ah, I understand now.  I didn't realize that the lightweight checkout could be
basically "morphed" from branch to branch.  I'll have to read your example more
slowly next time.
> 
> I did present that, I guess not well enough for you to understand.

Perhaps I was just not good enough to understand.  Thanks for your help, I'll
evaluate using bazaar using the method you mention and see what I come up with.