[RFC] quickbranch

[Johan Rydberg]

Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> writes:

> A more general form of this would look, I think, a bit more like git's
> pack files.  It would be good if we could wrap all of history up to some
> point into a self-contained file which could be brought down in one
> piece.  Perhaps something to think about for a future format.

I think Mercurial has something along these lines; bundles.

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/CommunicatingChanges

Personally, I think just a tarball of .bzr is the simplest way to go.

~j