Re: VCS comparison table
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James Henstridge <james@jamesh.id.au>
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- Oct 20, 2006, 08:26 UTC
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On 17/10/06, Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > - - you can use a checkout to maintain a local mirror of a read-only > > branch (I do this with http://bazaar-vcs.com/bzr/bzr.dev). > > I'm not sure what you mean here. A bzr checkout doesn't have any history > does it? So it's not a mirror of a branch, but just a checkout of the > branch head?
There are two forms of checkout: a normal checkout which contains the complete history of the branch, and a lightweight checkout, which just has a pointer back to the original location of the history.
In both cases, a "bzr commit" invocation will commit changes to the remote location. In general, you only want to use a lightweight checkout when there is a fast reliably connection to the branch (e.g. if it is on the local file system, or local network).
Aaron would be talking about a normal (heavyweight) checkout here. With a heavyweight checkout, you can do pretty much anything without access to the branch. In contrast, almost all operations on a lightweight checkout need access to the branch.
James.