| fullermd | So: you had a branch in the place where you're using the files. | 00:00 |
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| fullermd | You used 'push' to make a copy of that branch somewhere else. | 00:00 |
| jvelasquez | so different people will be able to checkout that branch, from the file server, and all work on it like other VCS? | 00:00 |
| fullermd | You socially want that "somewhere else" to be the central home, so you declare it such. | 00:00 |
| fullermd | So you socially want that original branch to function like a checkout of the branch branch, and you use 'bind' to make it act like that. | 00:00 |
| fullermd | Then you use 'checkout' from that central branch to make new checkouts of it anywhere else you want 'em. | 00:01 |
| * fullermd nods. | 00:01 | |
| fullermd | And then you use 'update' in those various other branches any time you want to catch up to the central repo. | 00:01 |
| fullermd | You usually don't want to use "pull" in a checkout. Or rather, you maybe often do, but it may not do what you think if you're used to standalone branches. So for simplicity... | 00:02 |
| jvelasquez | Would I have been better off, tar cf of my branch, and then untared it into the central repo, so that way the central repo has stuff that's versioned ? | 00:04 |
| jvelasquez | using tar instead of push ? | 00:04 |
| fullermd | No, your central repo has stuff that's versioned. | 00:04 |
| fullermd | It just doesn't have a useful working tree. And probably shouldn't. | 00:05 |
| fullermd | Generally you'd just have branches and their repos (individual or shared; doesn't make a fundamental difference) in the central place. You'd only have WT's in the various checkouts. | 00:06 |
| fullermd | Or alternately, if it's anything other than the stuff in .bzr/, none of push/pull/branch/checkout/merge/etc will ever read or write or care anything about it. | 00:07 |
| fullermd | (leaving aside various edge cases that don't affect the main point) | 00:08 |
| fullermd | So if a central place exists to store the history and provide a target to be checkout'd etc (which is generally the case), there's no reason for it to have any files other than the .bzr/ stuff. | 00:09 |
| fullermd | Is that all making things clearer, or muddier? | 00:25 |
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| abentley | fullermd: --use-shared changes a branch to *use* a shared repository. It doesn't convert a repository into a shared repository. | 20:16 |
| fullermd | abentley: Yeah, I knew it did that; I thought I remembered it doing the slightly-unsettling double duty too. | 22:58 |
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