[RFC] Vanilla checkouts in 2.2

[John Szakmeister]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Robert Collins
<robert.collins at canonical.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Unless its a core goal for the whole team I don't think its going to
> happen, for basically technical reasons.
>
> As for the particular UI you put forward, I'd be fine with the idea of a
> checkout command you can tell to cache all history, and which cannot be
> converted to a normal branch. *Apart from* the ability to cache more or
> less than a certain amount, thats what checkout was intended to be when
> I originally landed it: bind and unbind and the UI around the rich bound
> branches have grown since then. I will note though, that if you have a
> cache of all history, there isn't a *technical* reason why that can't be
> converted to a local branch... and that the command to do that shouldn't
> be 'unbind'.

Maybe 'reconfigure' can help do the conversion?

-John