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

[Matt Doran]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 00:40 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>
> I do like the docs. However I have some concerns too.
>   
>> 2. a branch could reuse the repository of a dependent branch
>>    without needing to explicitly create a shared repo in a parent
>>    directory.
>>     
>
> I think this would make it harder for people to reason about 'where is
> my data' - which is important when deleting branches. If users get it
> wrong they will delete data they care about. 
I agree 110% with this.   This was my first reaction when reading the 
proposal.

User's need to be *very* clear on what their branches contain and the 
dependencies on other branches/repos.   At least using the 
hard-linking/hg approach is very easy to reason about ... and you can be 
sure that each branch is stand-alone.   Getting this right is extremely 
important.

If you make implicit links between branches that are not completely 
obvious there will be pain!

Matt
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