[MERGE/RFC] Userdoc Driven Design on the Bazaar 2.0 UI

Maritza Mendez martitzam at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 01:32:40 BST 2009


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net
> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:40:46AM +1000 I heard the voice of
> Robert Collins, and lo! it spake thus:
> >
> > > 1. checkouts should be lightweight by default (ala svn)
> >
> > There are serious performance implications in this.  [...]
> > lightweight checkouts are really only suitable for high bandwidth
> > low latency environments.
>
> A possible solution is to default checkouts of file:/// to be light,
> and others heavy.  The obvious downside is the added DWIMitude.


I like your previous idea of calling them both checkouts (or whatever) with
a with-or-without flag for ancestry.

But I do not think the meaning of the command or type of branch created
should depend on the type of transport.
That forces me to think too much for a simple operation.

-M
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