[RFC] branch --bind

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Matthew D. Fuller writes:
 > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:20:21PM +0900 I heard the voice of
 > Stephen J. Turnbull, and lo! it spake thus:
 > > 
 > > Rather it would be a complex object composed of a "hidden" bound
 > > branch and the "normal" workspace in a (lightweight) checkout (with
 > > the UI hiding the complexity until the user actually starts to do VC
 > > work offline).
 > 
 > FWIW, I consider that a _terrible_ idea,

Note that it is *not* my idea, but rather one endorsed by *two* senior
bzr developers at this point.

 > further entrenching the already painful conflation of very
 > different entities (and for that matter, I don't see how it's
 > functionally different from a bound branch with a [lightweight]
 > checkout that happens to be colocated with the branch...)

It's not.  That's precisely the point: it's not about functionality,
it's about telling users how to get the functionality.