TortoiseBzr and Working Trees

[Eugene Wee]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I understand it, the branches with
> trees in a repo is more usual for bazaar.

I suspect that what you say is true, but I wonder if it is just
because of lack of awareness. In my opinion, the advantage of having
feature branches with trees is that you do not need to mess with a
checkout (and where checkouts are not lightweight by default, probably
get it wrong) so it is simpler to introduce, whereas the advantages of
having feature branches without trees is that you save space and do
not need to re-configure tools that are sensitive to differing
absolute file paths.

> That would probably confuse people when trying to branch within the
> repo, as suggested by
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/organizing_your_workspace.html#feature-branches

That is if they use that suggestion. If they use the suggestion in the
next section (Local sandbox), or a variant like bzr branch --switch,
they would be fine.

Regards,
Eugene Wee