A few questions/potential issues in Bazaar-NG

[Matthieu MOY]

Aaron Bentley said:
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> Matthieu Moy wrote:
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>> What's nice with the "append-only" is that it's easy to split the
>> history in different archives (cheap remote branch). For example, when
>> I microbranch from Bazaar (with baz), I usually do not create a
>> cachedrev, and my archive contains only the part of the history I'm
>> interested in.
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> I've done that too, and it makes me uncomfortable.  So I stopped doing
> it, and just let it cacherev.  It means that your archive is dependent
> on another resource to be usable.

There are many cases where I wouldn't accept this, but in the case of a
short-life branch, that is meant to be merged anyway in the archive you're
dependent of, it's acceptable, and if you microbranch a lot, it saves tens
or thousands of megabytes (which allows me to fit in my 100Mb quota).

I agree that not being dependant is nice and must be the default, but
being able to make cheap remote branches has some advantages too.

> I think a better alternative to dependent archives and revlibs is
> centralized storage: move the branch data out of the working tree, and
> into a common area.

99.9% agree. The 0.1% is for remote branches as described above ;-).

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Matthieu