Checkouts vs bound branches
Neil Martinsen-Burrell
nmb at wartburg.edu
Sun Jun 28 19:16:38 BST 2009
Russel Winder wrote:
> Bazaar Explorer distinguishes Checkouts and "Bound Branches", is there a
> real distinction between these things?
There was an effort to make the behavior of bound branches (heavyweight
checkouts) identical to lightweight checkouts. I believe the policy is
still that differences in behavior between the two "weights" of
checkouts are bugs and should be reported.
Reading heavily between the lines of discussions about the Bazaar 2.0
UI, it appears that in the Bazaar 2.0 era, the "heavyweight checkout"
terminology will be de-emphasized and the "bound branch" concept will be
emphasized. I think that this will clarify the concepts and emphasize
their relative advantages (checkout = lightweight = everything remote;
branch = local history, may or may not be bound to a remote location for
mirroring).
-Neil
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