[RFC] fetch-ghosts command?

[Martin Pool]

On 7/13/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 16:19 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > On 7/13/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> > > I think fetch-ghosts should become a core [hidden] command.
> > >
> > > Scalable fetching requires not searching all the history, so finding
> > > ghosts either needs significant index complexity, or needs to be off by
> > > default and triggered by a command...
> >
> > I think it would be good to have it both accessible and off by default.
>
> I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean by 'accessible' ?

Able to be accessed from the command line as well as from bzrlib.

> > I'd suggest instead making it fetch --ghosts as someone wanted a
> > different fetch command the other day.
>
> Sure. What command did they want?

It came up during https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125249 -- I would
imagine that fetch would bring in all the new revisions from another
branch, but not put them onto a branch or update a tree.  It wouldn't
try to fill ghosts unless --ghosts was specified.  Just an idea.

-- 
Martin