Shallow branches question

[Nicholas Allen]

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| So basically, you are asking for shallow branches to save space, only
| to have it grow in place until the branch become a full branch,
| without notifying you?

~ I want shallow branches so that I can make a branch of a very large 
project without needing to download all the history but still be able to 
do most operations off-line. The further back in history you go the less 
relevant a revision is. So initially start with none but if I download 
some because of log annotate etc then Bazaar should keep them locally. I 
don't care about space actually - I care about time. Hard drives are so 
large now I couldn't care less if Bazaar cached 1000 revisions because 
it had to download them for a log (as long as it doesn't slow down 
operation). The chances that I do an operation that needs the entire 
history of a large project are slim. Probably the last 5000-10000 
revisions will ever be needed. That could be a very small percentage of 
a large project.

I want to be able to branch a large project and work on it immediately 
like I can with SVN. However, I want to be able to work off-line as much 
as possible and still perform log/annotate etc. I thought shallow 
branches are supposed to be the answer to this problem (not the problem 
of how to save disk space which I guess most people don't care about 
nearly as much nowadays).

Nick
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