[MERGE] Fix reconfiguring standalone tree to lightweight checkout

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Fri Dec 14 12:51:21 GMT 2007


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Ian Clatworthy wrote:

> Perhaps I'm being overly pedantic but I think we need to do more in our
> documentation to differentiate between normal checkouts and lightweight
> ones.

Ever since we've decided to term them "checkouts" instead of "bound
branches", we've considered that behavioural differences between
lightweight checkouts and normal checkouts are bugs. I think that would
be movement in the wrong direction.

> Unless you disagree, I think we ought to black-ban the term "heavyweight
> checkout" as well. We should consciously say either lightweight or
> normal, where the latter might be deep (now) or might be shallow (soon).

I disagree quite a lot.

Aaron
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