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

[Ian Clatworthy]

Michael Gliwinski wrote:

> 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?

If checkout always simply means "create a working tree for a branch", it
fits fine. Asking for a cache of some amount of history would be optional.

Ian C.