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

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:59:17 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>   
>> Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
>>     
>>> Let me ask a naive question: what is the difference between "bzr
>>> checkout --lightweight; bzr unbind" and "bzr branch --stacked" ?
>>> Users coming from other VCS certainly expect checkouts to depend on
>>> the original branch.  [...]
>>>       
>> You can't unbind a lightweight checkout.
>>     
>
> Oh, I should have tried -- I did not really expect that.
>
> What about the difference between "bzr checkout --lightweight $URL"
> and "bzr branch --stacked; bzr bind $URL"?
>   
A stacked branch has some history locally, and has a local repository
(although that only contains a few revisions).

A lightweight checkout doesn't have its own repository or any local
history.

Cheers,

Jelmer