[Bulk] Re: [rfc] bzr-colo into core

[Gordon Tyler]

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On 3/23/2011 8:53 AM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 08:44 -0400, Gordon Tyler wrote:
>> On 3/22/2011 10:18 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
>>>  * I feel the user model is in an unhappy valley where users do need
>>> to know about the repository, branch, wt components, but the ui and
>>> documentation don't really expose them as such; instead we tend to
>>> talk about the stylized arrangements such as lightweight checkouts and
>>> standalone branches.
>>>
>>>  * The thing that is closest to being a default, standalone branches,
>>> is not something we would normally recommend at all.
>>
>> So how about this: `bzr branch URL [DIR]` will create a colo repo if
>> there is no shared repo in a parent dir. If URL contains a colo repo,
>> all branches would be cloned. A `--standalone` option can be added to
>> make it work like it currently does.
>>
>> The problem with the bzr-colo implementation is that the URL to a
>> particular branch is a little messy if you want to fetch only one
>> branch. The only way I can see that getting resolved is by adding some
>> kind of indicator to the URL for which branch to fetch. Whether that
>> gets resolved to the .bzr/branches/BRANCH or if branches are
>> incorporated into repo metadata, I don't know.
> I think it would be confusing for "bzr branch" to create more than one
> branch. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to remove the "clone" alias
> from "bzr branch" and turn it into its own command? "bzr clone" could
> create a full clone of the remote control dir, including all of the
> branches present.

Good point. That would change `bzr branch` to be solely for creating
branching in an existing local repo? `bzr clone` would be the command
for fetching remote repos or standalone branches.

Ciao,
Gordon

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