Need help with workflow

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 16/01/2010 03:31, Ben Finney wrote:
> Can you not have several branches, and “point” the relevant application
> at whichever directory is desired at a particular time? Perhaps with an
> application option, or with a filesystem link, or whatever other
> facilities there are?

I can't answer for Gordon, but I know such method can be a paint.
On Windows, we have no link (well, we have, but there is no easy to use, 
out of the box command to make them).
Applications like Eclipse make a paint to point a project to another 
location. If I am not mistaken, basically you have to recreate another 
project, which can be time consuming.
If you do a Web site, it has to be located where the server software 
points to, at a given level. Again, switching location need to stop the 
server, change location, restart server.
And so on.

That's a problem common to all DVCSes, I think, I asked a similar 
question when I first started to play with Mercurial, before hoping into 
Bazaar:
Mercurial practices: use with IDEs and scalability 
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/403279/mercurial-practices-use-with-ides-and-scalability>
Hadn't much answers... :-) And no definitive one.
Perhaps I should ask the same question of Bazaar, to display prominently 
the answers... :-D

That's why I saw with interest people recommending using switch. I 
haven't used it yet, but it seems to address nicely the problem.
I am not sure what colo plugin solves, I should take a look at its doc.

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