[Tortoisebzr-developers] Introduction

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Wed Aug 20 19:20:40 BST 2008


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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel пишет:

...

>>    a) A lightweight checkout model, very similar to how svn would
>> work. The
>>       'branch' command would create a new branch on the remote server,
>> and
>>       switch, etc would be used to point their local working tree around.
> 
> IMO the problem here is that standard CLI 'branch' command is working in
> different way:
> it creates local standalone branch, not the branch in the repo + another
> lightweight
> checkout. When I'm trying to use such workflow I'm ended writing
> lightweight-branch
> plugin that does what you described.
> 
> Of course TBZR is free to "reimplement" or "extend" standard bzr
> commands, but in
> this case very high risks that liaison between std CLI and TBZR GUI will
> be broken,
> and this will create too much confusion for users and developers.
> 
> Everything else you described have very much sense (for me).
> 

There is 'cbranch' provided by bzrtools that does this as well. Again, we may
not call it "branch", but my main point is given different workflows what is
it likely that a user actually wants to do.

John
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