user guide help (definitions of terms)

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 05/08/2009 03:27, Martin Pool wrote:
>> What is a “working tree” in Bazaar-speke? What does Bazaar call “the
>> actual set of version-controlled files as they currently exist on the
>> filesystem”?
> 
> The working tree is these files plus the metadata about them which
> lives in .bzr/checkout, and remembers their file ids, pending merges,
> conflicts, etc.  This is represented, oddly enough, by the WorkingTree
> class hierarchy.

It could be interesting to update or make a more complete version of the 
http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrGlossary page with the above info and more.
The page above is interesting and useful, but the more "verbose" 
description above (and similar in this thread and elsewhere, I started 
to note them...) is also interesting and useful.

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