Shallow branches question
Martin Pool
mbp at canonical.com
Mon Mar 10 22:39:30 GMT 2008
On 07/03/2008, Nicholas Allen <allen at ableton.com> wrote:
> The shallow branches feature sounds great! I'm just wondering if this is
> the same as the "history horizon" thing that was discussed a while ago.
> Can shallow branches cache some revisions from the remote location or is
> it an all or nothing approach still to caching remote revisions? It
> would be nice to have say the last 5000 revisions in a branch but
> nothing before (so annotate, log etc still give some useful info).
>
> Can I still do "bzr log" on a shallow branch while not being connected
> to the remote branch that it is branched from? So bazaar would still
> show me my local revisions without needing network access.
>
> Just wondering what the planned capabilities of shallow branching are
> (in near and long term).
With the current code, we try to access all the repositories, so I
believe it will just fail if the network is not accessible. However,
it does give us a platform for building that kind of policy in the
future - to say "don't access if it's not reachable", or indeed "don't
try to access anyhow".
--
Martin
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