[RFC] Vanilla checkouts in 2.2

[Paul Moore]

2010/1/12 Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com>:
>> How does this fit in with the goals/constraints poolie and I were
>> discussing at the end of the other thread.
>>
>> I'd really like to see a big picture emerge here, not single stabs.
>
> To avoid dealing with this in lots of little fragments, I'd like to
> see a list of the use cases and how they would work under this model,
> like
>
>  if you just want a readonly mirror of a remote branch, where you can
> look at the tree and the history...
>    ... run 'bzr branch URL' and then 'bzr pull' to update it
>
> (Those command are what we would say now; I'm not saying they're
> optimal and I would hope to see them replaced.)

(Confused newbie point here) In what sense is that "readonly"? It's
certainly possible to make changes in that branch.

Paul.