"bzr status" in a lightweight checkout

[Martin Pool]

On 10 August 2010 13:08, Robert Collins <robert.collins at canonical.com> wrote:
> Previously it seemed very desirable to fail early rather than late;
> and nearly all operations require repo access.
>
> I wouldn't object as much to that being changed, OTOH using bzr
> without a local repository is just *asking* for slow performance on
> every history-related operation .

True, but that's not a good reason to be slow in cases where we don't
need to be.  Anyhow, just needs a patch from someone.

Alexander wrote:

> Does `bzr status` check for `tree revision is not up-to-date with branch revision` condition?

It does, though it could potentially do that by opening only the
branch not the repository, which may be faster.

-- 
Martin