Re: BZR and the bootstrap

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:57:07 +0900
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 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[...].

I asked on the Bazaar list about this.