The importance of patch pools

[Aaron Bentley]

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Kevin Smith wrote:
> 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.

Yes, this will be possible with weaves.  Weaves aren't picky about which
branches they hold data for.  All they need is unique revision ids,
which bzr provides.

Aaron
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