Shared repositories and not having working trees

[Eric Siegerman]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 08:49 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Follow your heart. :P
> 
> That probably means palpitations ;-)

Not to mention the occasional murmur :-)

> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 17:25 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> > $ touch .bzr/repository/no-working-trees
> > Obviously that's a hack, but I learned it from a
> > hacker so that makes it ok :)
> 
> It seems this is the effect of Jonathan's suggestion and so in some
> sense entirely equivalent.  However, I think I prefer using a "bzr
> reconfigure" command line as it is more robust to change in the future.

Those "reconfigure" options are a fairly recent addition (this
past February).  Before then the hack was the only way to change
this setting; but now that there's a sanctioned non-hack, as you
say, it's clearly preferable.

  - Eric