[MERGE] Port across errors for shallow branch support.

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Feb 20 04:48:57 GMT 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:04 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
> >> Why are both the repository format and the branch format required to be
> >> stackable?
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> > Because both branch and repository are changing to allow shallow
> > branches that scale well. I posted previously about this.
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> You posted about stacking, but I don't think you said anything about why
> stacked branches was the best-scaling option.  Last I see, you're still
> mulling three options, only one of which is branch stacking.

Ah. Well I've come to the conclusion that branch stacking is the most
scalable because all the other options seem likely to access many
spurious locations far too often.

-Rob
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