Lightweight branches?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Dmitry Vasiliev wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 
>> We do have a spec for what you're talking about, but no one is working
>> on it yet:  http://bazaar-vcs.org/HistoryHorizon
> 
> 
> Just curious about UI changes, why not use -r option instead of
> --shallow/--horizon? For example:
> 
> bzr branch -r -1.. <=> bzr branch --shallow <=> bzr branch --horizon -1
> bzr branch -r -100.. <=> bzr branch --horizon -100
> bzr branch -r -100..-10 <=> bzr branch -r -10 --horizon -100
> 
> I think there is already a plenty of concepts in Bazaar so
> simplification should be one of the important goals.

I agree with that, but I don't think that using a revision range instead
of a flag does this.  If anything, it makes the behavior of -r
surprising.  It also makes it hard to set up shallow branching as a
default behavior, because supplying -r will override it.

I really think "truncate history?" is a separate question from "where
should I stop?".  Making it part of the -r option also makes shallow
branching less discoverable.

Aaron
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