[RFC] branch --bind

[Algis Kabaila]

On Monday 11 January 2010 17:43:09 Martin Pool wrote:
> 2010/1/11 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
> > Martin Pool writes:

As a simple minded ordinary user with limited experience in svn repositories I 
find this discussion well beyond me.  By now I've given up trying to follow it.  
However, as I have used --bind option in the past, I do look at this thread 
occasionally.

It has been mentioned that this thread is a sink of time and energy that could 
be better used for the development activity.  I share this view.

I switched to bazaar quite innocently after I read a few documents - I liked 
the style and thought the high standard of presentation meant that I was 
taking up the use of a mature versioning tool.  Some threads convinced me 
otherwise.

OTOH,   Bazaar and bzr-explorer seem to work satisfactorily and "Launchpad" 
seems a good facility.

However, the ability of threads similar to this to absorb subscribers time and 
energy, even without contributing to it is such that I feel very disappointed 
with myself for having moved to bazaar. I feel great urge to quit bazaar for 
good.  Alas, I am kind of hooked to it and to launchpad...

For an ordinary user, such as I, it is a great disappointment that the 
*documentation*, which definitely needs updating, remains in the same state of 
completion (viz.  it does not even mention bzr-explorer, the GUI that window 
users will use, first and last! I do not use windows, but 90%+ PC users are on 
windows).

Why cant we have a few (no more than 3 to 4) workflows explained fully, so that 
a newbie can just choose one to her liking and follow it until she succeeds to 
get confused by the complex discussions in threads like this one?

I am sure that splitting hair is useful (though I don't know where, but 
intellignt people are doing it, so it must be useful somewhere).

OldAl,
Frustrated and cranky.

-- 
Algis Kabaila, MEngSc, PhD(Eng)
http://akabaila.pcug.org.au/StructuralAnalysis.pdf