[RFC] branch --bind

[Óscar Fuentes]

Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> writes:

> 2010/1/5 Juanma Barranquero <lekktu at gmail.com>:
>> 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?
>
> That would work with lightweight checkouts, and I think would be
> better that way.

Does it make sense to use a lightweight checkout here when you are
working inside a shared repo? Doesn't a regular checkout cause almost
the same overhead on a shared repo that a lightweight checkout?

I would prefer to save the awkward to write --lightweight command line
option.

-- 
Óscar