Re: bzr repository ready?

[Óscar Fuentes]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

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>  > So checkouts and branches are mostly the same?
>
> No.  In principle, a checkout is not a branch at all.  It contains the
> working tree, but no history, and by default only enough metadata to
> tell bzr which repository to get history and other metadata from.
> Since the parent repository may be on another host, "log", "diff", and
> "commit" become expensive operations, and pull and push are no-ops.

Stephen missed a word here. What he says is correct for a *lightweight*
checkout. A normal checkout contains all the metadata, and in essence
what distinguishes it from a normal branch is that every `commit' has an
implicit `push'. Normal checkouts are also known as bound branches. You
can turn a branch into a checkout and vice-versa anytime. You can also
commit to a checkout using a flag for not executing the `push'.

For all practical effects, a lightweight checkout is a CVS checkout.

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Óscar Fuentes
Desarrollo de Software