Naive questions re hard-linking repositories

[Martin Pool]

2009/4/16 Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> Whether you prefer one or the other, the fact that bzr is still
>> oriented towards a mode of operation that isn't what we generally
>> recommend is a problem.  I think this lies behind complaints that
>> there are too many ways to use bzr.  Having the options is not a
>> problem so much as the lack of a clear normal method on which both the
>> community and the tool agree.
>
> We could start to refuse "bzr branch" when the source is local and is
> not using a shared repository (and add a "--sole" or "--force" argument
> to override the check).

Or, we could just print something like

"copying content to new repository at %s"

which would at least give a bit of a clue why it's taking so long and
what you might do to avoid it; I think that would be easy and
uncontroversial.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>