Re: VCS comparison table

Dear diary, on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:44:37PM CEST, I got a letter
where Aaron Bentley [off-list ref] said that...

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

quoted

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In our terminology, if it can diverge from the original, it's a branch,
not a checkout.

This clears things up immensely. bazaar checkout != git checkout.
I still fail to see how a local copy you can't commit to is useful

My bzr is run from a local copy I can't commit to.  To get the latest
changes from http://bazaar-vcs.org, I can run "bzr update ~/bzr/dev".
To merge the latest changes into my branch, I can run
"bzr merge ~/bzr/dev".  It's also convenient for applying other peoples'
patches to.

The question is, why is it useful to enforce the "no commit" rule? Git
can work exactly the same, it just doesn't _enforce_ the rule. And is
the capability of enforcing such a rule important enough to warrant its
own column in the comparison table?