Thoughts on Nested Branches: bzr init --nest?

[Maritza Mendez]

Thanks to both of you for your perspective.  I appreciate all of the point
you make.  My perspective is necessarily different from that of a bzr
poweruser.  I am obliged to worry about how less advanced users will hurt
themselves.  I need to weigh the benefits of a feature in the right hands
against he risks of the same feature in the wrong hands.  Sadly it it not
always obvious until I have to get involved to help.  For the most part, I
think bzr does the right things by default.  And I think plugins and gui
front-ends are probably the right place for safety features.

-M


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Robert Collins <
robert.collins at canonical.com> wrote:

> People also version their homedir from time to time... it would be
> annoying at the minimum for them to have to supply an option everytime -
> it would be an unbreakme option.
>
> 'bzr init new-dir' won't cause grief in the same way that 'bzr init' in
> a dir that is versioned can.
>
> In fact, I think the only time that 'bzr init [foo]' is arguably an
> error is when foo is *versioned* by a containing branch.
>
> That should be an error and should say 'use bzr split'.
>
> -Rob
>
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