Cheaper branching under consideration?

[Martin Pool]

On 05/09/05, James Blackwell <jblack at merconline.com> wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know what happened to this?
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:33:55AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> >
> > Yes it will fulfill my needs.
> >
> > However, until it's implemented I've cooked together a small plugin that
> > does a "shallow branch", a branch with only the last revision. Bzr seems
> > to work just fine, even though the revno is decreased to 1.

It's an interesting idea, though as Aaron puts it it, it does void
your warranty.

Rather than truncating history I'd like to 

 * make local branches using hardlinks, which should work fine now
 * use more compact storage
 * have branches that know some of their history is stored at another location.

Possibly bzr branch should try to make hardlinks by default locally
(but perhaps not by default for the working copy.

> > My idea was to use it to make micro-branching cheaper. (Also I wanted to
> > play with bzr :-)

I thought Rob Weir had done something about this, but I can't find the
branch.  Maybe this will wake him up.

-- 
Martin