Thoughts on colocated branches

[Matthew D. Fuller]

I've been letting some thoughts about $SUBJECT stew around in my head
for a while, and I've been meaning to get them down on electrons for
some time now.  I've gone ahead and written up a first sketch of
what's in my head, so at least it can be pointed at.  I've stuck it on
the wiki at <http://bazaar-vcs.org/MatthewFuller/Fasces>.

An important attribute (to me, anyway) of bzr is not just that it
allows a multiplicity of different workflows and layouts, but that it
allows you to use multiple ones _at the same time_, and to easily
switch among them if you so choose.  I don't want to lose this in
growing what I chose to call 'fasces'; bundles of branches.  And I
think they can be implemented so that you can smoothing have
dir-per-branch and multiple-named-branches-in-a-dir side by side at
the same time, keep sharing a repository across directories whether
they contain one or many branches, etc.  The above doc is an attempt
to describe actions and structures that allow that to happen.

I don't claim it's complete, perfect, or free of contradictions.  And
I probably haven't translated what's in my head perfectly.  But I
believe it's a reasonable foundation.


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