[RFC] Vanilla checkouts in 2.2

[Paul Moore]

2010/1/12 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:
> If I wanted a "readonly mirror", I think I'd be justified in assuming
> that when someone gave me instructions, the resulting mirror would
> either (a) be actually readonly, or (b) ignore/discard local changes
> when I pulled. On the assumption that neither of these is actually
> possible, I'd be happy to be told how to make a local mirror, and that
> I should simply *treat* it as readonly.

Sorry for following up to myself but I just want to clarify - I
*don't* intend to imply that I think it needs to be possible to create
a readonly mirror. Mercurial (my day-to-day DVCS) can't do that, and
I'm completely OK with that. I just create a normal mirror and don't
write to it - as you explain.

It may simply be that with the various workflows and use cases, Bazaar
is trying to do too much, rather than simply providing the pieces and
letting users put them together how they prefer. (But then again,
maybe that's precisely the difference in philosophy between Bazaar and
Mercurial...)

Paul.