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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