Reconfigure (was Re: [RFC] Vanilla checkouts in 2.2)

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Tuesday 12 January 2010 11:33:00 Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:07:23PM +1300 I heard the voice of
>
> Aaron Bentley, and lo! it spake thus:
> > In fact, one of the points of reconfigure is to replace bind/unbind
> > and other similar manipulations with a single command.
>
> One shortcoming of reconfigure vs [un]bind (and similar
> transformations, e.g. remove-tree/checkout) is that it specifies a
> state rather than a transformation.  It's a `chmod 0775`, not a `chmod
> g+w`.  Sometimes one is more convenient than the other, so I do think
> we need both.
>
> That isn't to say that one should be all options/subcommands on one
> command, and the other scattered across a dozen commands, to be sure.
> But on first blush, I'm a little leery of having both as options on
> one command; it gets a little cluttered and overloaded.

I don't think anyone's saying [un]bind should be removed just that the meaning 
and implementation of checkout could be changed so that checkout = wt + cache 
(instead of wt + bound branch).  And since that cache could contain enough 
data to be able to transform it into a full branch, there should be a command 
that does that.  Reconfigure makes sense for that, IMO.  I mean, what would 
unbind mean for that meaning/implementation of checkout?

However this leads to another question.  Checkout currently also means 'create 
working tree for a tree-less branch', would that change?  How do you see that 
fit?


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