[RFC] make checkouts as much like bound branches as possible

[Olaf Conradi]

On 28/03/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Olaf Conradi wrote:
> > With lightweight checkouts as bound branches he can't use this
> > construct. If he wants to put everything in a local shared repository
> > he can't bind to the remote one and has to push everything.
>
> Perhaps the solution to that is to make bound branches support this.
> It's certainly something their API can represent, and apparently people
> like Erik want to use bound branches wherever I would use lightweight
> checkouts.

A bound branch has the benefit of unbinding and taking your laptop offline,
as the lightweight checkouts were part of a local shared repository.

A lightweight checkout from a remote shared repository can't do that.
A normal checkout (bound branch) can, but that isn't part of a shared
repository.