creating checkouts, bound branches and standalone branches from an existing branch

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:38:33AM +1100 I heard the voice of
Robert Collins, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I think we should encourage people to use bound branches rather than
> literal checkouts as much as possible [as long as we have the
> automatic offline commit support in]

I think I would agree (with some reservations on 'automatic') with
this, but...

> I.e. 'checkout' could make a bound branch, 'checkout
> --no-offline-support' could make a literal checkout.

I don't like that so much.  That seems a little too much like it
really means --no-seriously-I-really-do-want-a-checkout.


> Or 'get' could make a bound branch and we can recommend 'get' in the
> checkout help.

This (or perhaps some other name than 'get') goes down much better
with me.


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