[RFC] Vanilla checkouts in 2.2

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> writes:

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    >>  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.)

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

If you make changes to your mirror, you can't use it as a mirror
anymore, so in effect you keep it read-only for *you* but you
update it from upstream of course.

       Vincent