Thoughts on colocated branches

[Martin Pool]

2009/8/30 Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net>:
> 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.

Thanks for writing this up, I'm hoping to write up some thoughts of my
own on the same topic post 2.0 settling down.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>