On 17/10/06, Sean  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.

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