branching via hard links

[Aaron Bentley]

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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> Thanks for the answer. However, if I understood correctly, that is
> only when we do not use the "trees" option. But I often want the trees
> option when I clone local repos (I want to edit in those branches),
> and I think the gain then goes down. (I actually just tested on a
> couple of local repos).

Well, there are two things you can hard-link; the .bzr dir, and the
working tree.  Hard-linking the working tree can be pretty dangerous, so
it's not our default behaviour.  But hard-linking the working trees is
the only way you'd get more efficient storage than a repository with
- --trees.

Aaron
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