Revisit Newbie Bazaar Repository and Branch Setup

[Tom Browder]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:34, Neil Martinsen-Burrell <nmb at wartburg.edu> wrote:
> On 2010-12-08 10:16, Tom Browder wrote:
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>> Now I believe I made at least two bad choices:
>>
>> 1. I should not have created shared repositories because each project
>> is a separate object with essentially no dependency on another.
>
> This ought to be irrelevant.  Some Bazaar developers use shared repositories
> that contain branches for all of their projects.  Someone even once

Comforting...

> suggested ``bzr init-repo ~``.  That said, there may failure modes that can
> affect a repository and if that happens in a shared repository, then it
> could impact all of the projects stored there.

Good point.

>> 2. I created the shared repos on the server with trees with and tried
>> to work in the repo projects which doesn't seem to work.  In order to
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> "doesn't seem to work" is vague.  Can you give more details about what
> happened?  It is likely that all that was needed a ``bzr update`` in the