Overlay repositories

[Aaron Bentley]

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Steve Alexander wrote:
> I want to propose a new feature: Overlay repositories.  That is, a
> repository can point to other repositories, and bzr will use this
> pointer to find the revision data it needs.

This sounds a lot like history horizons:

http://bazaar-vcs.org/HistoryHorizon

The difference is that we wanted to ensure that the repository had a
subset of history, and that as long as you stuck to that subset, you
could work without connecting to the main repository.

Aaron
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