Changing the UI of checkout

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 01:59:44AM +1000 I heard the voice of
Ian Clatworthy, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> IMO, the bottom line is that they smell the same but they're really
> quite different beasts.

These are arguments against bugs, not against concepts.


> * lightweight checkout = tree & a *reference* to a branch
> * heavyweight checkout = tree+branch & a *bind* to a second branch.

It's that these implementation details are exposed that causes the
problems.


> And we simply don't *need* heavyweight checkouts when we have bound
> branches as well. They're redundant to all intents and purposes.

But I do.  I don't want a bound branch.  I want a checkout that
doesn't wander across the network except when it has to, and that has
enough information cached that I can use it as the source for a local
'bzr branch' if the network or server is down.



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