Cheaper branching under consideration?

[William Dode]

On 06-09-2005, Martin Pool wrote:
> 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.

yes yes yes :-). However just .bzr directory...

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