Revisit Newbie Bazaar Repository and Branch Setup

Tom Browder tom.browder at gmail.com
Fri Dec 10 03:30:48 GMT 2010


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 20:48, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Tom Browder writes:
>
>  > Confusing to me so I think I won't work inside the repository tree
>  > again
>
> Ouch!  Once again, bzr is a *distributed* VCS.  It's not where you
> work that matters; that's the whole point of "distributed".  What
> matters is the family relationship of your branches, wherever they are
> located.  Specifically, you will have this problem if you keep making
> checkouts of checkouts, even if they are all standalone branches.
...

And also very helpful.  Thanks a bunch, Stephen!

(And also thanks for keeping a great editor going strong.)

-Tom



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