question about bzr model of shared repository

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Fri May 4 19:51:05 BST 2007


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Aaron Bentley пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> I wonder why in case of shared repository branches always
>> should be created inside the shared repository?
> 
> Because we want to be able to find all the branches that refer to the
> data in the shared repository.
> 
> We want to be able to do garbage collection.  We can't do that unless we
> know which revisions are in use.  We don't know that unless we know what
> all the branches are that refer to the repository.
> 
>> What I missing here? Probably it's better (to me) to read about
>> main assumptions and limitations of bzr model, does such document exists?
> 
> 
>> 'cbranch' command looks too complex for me.
> 
> Perhaps you should just make your home directory a shared repository.
> That's what everyone else seems to do, rather than trying to make
> treeless repos work smoothly.  Not that I'm bitter or anything.

Windows don't have idea of home directory, and I don't like to put
all my unrelated projects and their branches live in one big repository.
So: no, thank you.

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