[rfc] bzr-colo into core

[Martin Pool]

On 23 March 2011 17:47, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull пишет:
>> It seems to me that use of Mercurial named branches in CPython was a
>> mistake, because of the discontinuity at fork and merge nodes.  I
>> think that "branch" has become identified with the concept "line of
>> development" (aka LOD, ie, a branch starts from an empty source tree
>> and is continuous all the way to its tip), and the discontinuity of
>> soi-disant "named branches" is jarring and inconvenient in many ways.
>> And the reason above (basically, stashing experimental LODs) doesn't
>> apply to public repos.
>
> What does "LOD" stand for?

"Line of development"; people tend to use the term to distinguish
between a  logical/conceptual branch rather than just something that
happens to be a branch in a version control system.

Martin