Question about features

[Daniel Carrera]

Eugene Wee wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So basically all the branches are in the same working directory?
> 
> No, the feature branches are still in their own directories, but you
> can switch your checkout between them as needed. See:
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/reusing_a_checkout.html

A problem I'm having is that Bazaar distinguishes between a branch, a 
tree, a checkout, and a repository. That's four different terms. I come 
from the simpler world of darcs where "branch = working directory" and 
that's it.

For example, you wrote "--no-trees means that branches using the shared 
repository do not contain working trees". To understand this I first 
need to learn how a branch, a working tree and a repository differ.

I have another problem. My Bazaar doesn't seem to have a --create-branch 
option ("ERROR: no such option"). So I can't experiment with Tom's 
example to figure out how it works. I have Bazaar 1.13 (Ubuntu Jaunty).


All in all, this seems like a lot of complication when all i want is to 
uncommit feature A.


> Perhaps this article on organising branches will be a good read:
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/organizing_branches.html

Thanks.

Question: How would you modify the instructions on that page if you were 
starting a new project from scratch? The web page says:

bzr init-repo PROJECT
cd PROJECT
bzr branch sftp://centralhost/srv/bzr/PROJECT/trunk


What if I'm starting a brand new project? My best guess is:

bzr init-repo PROJECT
cd PROJECT
mkdir trunk  <-----
cd trunk     <-----
bzr init     <-----


Is this correct?

Daniel.