cheap branching across file systems?

[TK Soh]

On 6/27/06, Wouter van Heyst <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:51:34AM -0500, TK Soh wrote:
> > I created a branch on a different file system, but 'du' reported
> > similar usage on both repo. Have I misinterpreted the concept of cheap
> > branching?
>
> Could you provide some more context? If you branch inside a repository
> (created by bzr init-repo) the storage for revisions is shared, but I
> can't judge from here what is going on.

% cd /tmp
% bzr branch /home/tksoh/NEdit/n1 n2
Branched 1 revision(s).
% du -ks  /home/tksoh/NEdit/n1 n2
17320   /home/tksoh/NEdit/n1
17232   n2

Let me know if you need more info.