simple use case advice

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Eric Siegerman writes:
 > On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 13:15 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > > An alternative to branching with bzr is rsyncing (or other recursive
 > > copy) the branch.  AFAIK bzr can't tell the difference.
 > 
 > This is mostly true.  The important restriction is that, if the
 > source branch uses a shared repository,

Ah, that's right.  I knew there was something obvious I was
forgetting.

 > Other minor differences are:
 >   - "bzr branch" will point the destination's "parent" link at
 >     the source branch; obviously, rsync won't.

This might be considered a feature in some use cases, including
Chris's.  (That's his decision, of course.)

 >   - "bzr branch" can adjust the relative pathnames within
 >     .bzr/branch/branch.conf (and other files too?),

I suspect Chris doesn't have this issue (yet)! :-)