[Request] Remote operation need to be cached

[James Blackwell]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:13:00PM +0300, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> I use dial-up connection at home and during pulling big hunk of missing 
> revisions (from bzr.newformat) I accidentaly have break of connection. 
> After this bzr report that tree is identical, but they really don't 
> identical: missed some of files revisions. I cannot do bzr revert. 
> Repository seems to be somewhat broken.
> 
> I'm trying to use bzr pull because rsyncing for this BIG repository is 
> very long operation.


The newformat bzr should have a --basis option. This will allow you to use
an existing branch as an impromptu cache for pulling a new branch (You'll
have to doublecheck the syntax): 

$ bzr pull http://site.com/oldbranch olddir
[ wait a week]
$ bzr pull http://site.com/newbranch newdir --basis olddir

> 
> Alexander
>