The importance of patch pools

Kevin Smith yarcs at qualitycode.com
Mon Aug 22 23:37:54 BST 2005


Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com> writes:
> 
>>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.

I read that whole thread, but it wasn't clear to me that centralized 
storage would still be possible with weaves. If it is, that's great news.

Thanks,

Kevin




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