Bazaar Mercurial Plugin to access BitBucket

[Roland Mas]

Matthew D. Fuller, 2011-10-25 21:27:19 -0500 :

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:07:53PM -0400 I heard the voice of
> Barry Warsaw, and lo! it spake thus:
>> 
>> I have a vague feeling that colocated branches are preferred by
>> folks working on large compiled language code bases, but personally,
>> I don't see the attraction or advantage of them.
>
> One good reason is the broad category of "any time creating a new
> directory entails significant overhead", which can be of many times.
[...]

> Another is any sufficiently large project, so that the cost (disk
> space, I/O, wall time) of making a new working tree is burdensome.
>
> A third is where there are external things that depend on the
> location.  
[...]

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but all three of those requirements are met by
lightweight checkouts of branches stored in a shared repository.  I
myself don't handle an astronomical number of branches, but I have my
repository in ~/bzr-repo/, and the working trees are all lightweights
under ~/$project/$tree.  I usually keep one tree constantly on the
relevant "trunk" branch (with $tree=trunk), sometimes another on a
specific branch I spend lots of time in (with $tree=maintenance for
instance) and another is where I fool around (with $tree=switch).
Inside that "switch" tree, I just "bzr switch $foo" whenever I change
focus.

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

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