The importance of patch pools

[Matthieu Moy]

Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com> writes:

> 1. simplicity
> 2. plain http hosting
> 3. full cross-platform functionality

They are all part of bzr plans.

> It should be pretty easy to get bzr to run under MS Windows. But on a
> typical Windows box, hardlinks are not available, so if you have to
> copy an entire tree to create a branch, branches aren't cheap.

See Aaron's post today itself about centralized storage. Cheap branch
are _now_ available only with hardlinks, but will be available also
when weaves and centralized storage will be available.

-- 
Matthieu