[rfc] bzr-colo into core

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 03/30/2011 09:39 AM, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Russel Winder пишет:
>> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 08:37 +0300, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> [ . . . ]
>>
>>> Jelmer, I really think you need to try bzr-colo in action for some
>>> time (at least week) to see the problematic points and understand what
>>> UI should be for colocated support in bzr core.
>>
>> Perhaps even more importantly for general take up, how this will all
>> work in Bazaar Explorer -- which remains Bazaar's USP.
> 
> Currently support for bzr-colo exists in bzr-explorer, but it's far from
> ideal. I have some ideas based on my experience with bzr-colo, and I
> hope Neil will be able to provide some input too, because he's already
> made some qbzr-commands for colo.
> 
> In fact there will be big shift from current model: one directory == one
> branch, to colocated model.
> 

I've deleted the branch a lightweight checkout points to, and you just
'bzr switch --force' to another one. I don't know that we need to
implement force to begin with. But realize you can always have a
lightweight checkout pointing at a branch, and may not know it. (You can
have a lightweight checkout of a branch on launchpad, for example.)

John
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