[rfc] bzr-colo into core

[Alexander Belchenko]

John Arbash Meinel пишет:
> 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.)

Well, as I understand colocated support in bzr-core there won't be a 
lightweight checkout anymore, but new branch format with special 
reference to active branch. Is it true? If that's true then deleting 
active branch is not the same as deleting master branch of light 
checkout, is it?