[RFC] branch --bind

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Danny van Heumen writes:
>  > John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>  > > [snip]
>  > > So *IMO* an optimal setup would be to get rid of heavyweight checkout as
>  > > a concept. And stick with
> 
> I don't see this as an good answer to A Budden, who has a use case for
> the *concept*.  It seems to me that it should be possible to
> *automatically* implement the "heavyweight checkout = bound branch +
> separate lightweight checkout" strategy.  This could be done by
> convention (eg, reserve the .bzr-bound-branches subdirectory of the
> shared repo for bound branches, what a surprise!) and then do the
> equivalent of
> 

A local checkout of a branch bound to a remote branch would be identical
to what we currently call a "heavyweight checkout". We would
intentionally *not* call it that.

John
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