Question about features

[Daniel Carrera]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Daniel Carrera writes:
> 
>  > A problem I'm having is that Bazaar distinguishes between a branch, a 
>  > tree, a checkout, and a repository. That's four different terms. I come 
>  > from the simpler world of darcs where "branch = working directory" and 
>  > that's it.
> 
> You can work that way in Bazaar, but your particular workflow
> (frequently using obliterate) is poorly supported (basically for the
> reasons Ben Finney presents; the Bazaar developers mostly agree with
> him, although there are a variety of rationales among them).

We might have a misunderstanding. I don't need to use "obliterate". 
That's just a shortcut for "uncommit + revert". What I do use often is 
uncommitting a patch other than the most recent one.


>  > All in all, this seems like a lot of complication when all i want is to 
>  > uncommit feature A.
> 
> Yes.  You really want pipelines (maybe looms), not branches.

Thanks for the info. I'll attempt to educate myself about pipelines and 
looms.

Daniel.