treeless branches + lightweight co-s or colocated branches

Gour gour at atmarama.net
Wed Jun 20 05:09:52 UTC 2012


On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:32:28 -0500
Neil Martinsen-Burrell <nmb at wartburg.edu> wrote:

> If having the repository in a different location is important, then
> lightweight checkouts of a treeless repository is ideal.   

Yeah, I have use case for that and I like it.

> (This flexibility in setup is one of Bazaar's strengths...and
> weaknesses).  

Why weakness?

Isn't it Bazaar's virtue?

> bzr-colo is alive and well and I will continue to maintain it to
> provide colocated branch functionality for versions of Bazaar before
> 2.6.  I had hoped to be able to easily map the bzr-colo UI on top of
> Bazaar's new colocated branch functionality, but that has been more
> work (and I have had less time) than I expected. Instead, I think that
> the best way forward is when the UI for colocated branches matures in
> bzr 2.7, that I will recommend people to use that instead, although
> bzr-colo's version of colocated branches will continue to work as
> well.  

Thank you for clarification.


Sincerely,
Gour

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