Comment 4 for bug 876629

To follow up - my expectation, which was incorrect, was that a lightweight checkout would just provide a copy of the working tree; i.e., the files, and nothing else. Most other version control systems that I've used have a simple and obvious mechanism for getting a copy of the current files for a project/branch for review or whatever. I thought that was what I was doing. When I was done with the files, I tried doing a remove-tree, but was told that there was no branch. For some reason which now escapes me, I then tried a remove-branch, and the source branch was removed. Since there was no local branch, I didn't expect it to do anything. After further research, I now understand what a lightweight checkout does, but it took some digging to find this information.