[RFC] branch --bind

[Neil Martinsen-Burrell]

On 2010-01-04 21:41 , Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 04:20, Martin Pool<mbp at canonical.com>  wrote:
>
>> 2- so that you can commit locally, intentionally diverging the bound
>> branch from its master.  This adds a new mode for disconnected
>> operation and I question whether it is worth having the complexity
>> when people could just use a new branch.
>
> Are bound branches needed to imitate colocated branches by
>
>    bzr checkout master work
>    bzr branch --no-tree master branch1
>    bzr branch --no-tree master branch2   ; etc.
>    cd work
>    bzr switch branch1
>    # do work
>    bzr commit -m "..."
>    bzr switch branch2
>    # do work
>    # etc
>
> or would it work with lightweight checkouts?

It works with lightweight checkouts (and is their killer feature IMO).

-Neil