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Re: BZR and the bootstrap


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: BZR and the bootstrap
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:57:07 +0900

Óscar Fuentes writes:

 > IIRC, lightweight checkouts contain information for testing if the
 > file is modified or missing from the file system, which provides a
 > local `bzr status' operation. For anything else it needs to contact
 > upstream.

That may be true, but the rest of that help message strongly implies
that bzr can't even do a status in a lightweight checkout without
contacting the branch:

    Normal checkouts can perform common operations like
    diff and status without such access[...].





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