Lightweight branches?

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Tue Nov 14 14:05:42 GMT 2006


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Ross Burton wrote:

> Is it possible to do a "lightweight branch" that only copies
> locally the latest working copy and doesn't let me see the previous
> history?

No.  The usual way to do cheap branching is to use a repository.  This
doesn't speed up the initial branch.

We do have a spec for what you're talking about, but no one is working
on it yet:  http://bazaar-vcs.org/HistoryHorizon

Aaron
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