Cheaper branching under consideration?

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:35 +1000, 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.
> 
> > > 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.

http://crumbs.ertius.org/~rob/bzr/shared-storage/


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