Bazaar repository size benchmarks

[Christophe TROESTLER]

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:53:50 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 12:08 +0200, Pieter de Bie wrote:
> 
> > >  The space taken up by the working trees themselves become
> > >  important in that case and being able to save space across them
> > >  - as Bazaar lets you do using the --hardlink option to bzr
> > >  branch - can make some large savings.
> > Do you mean you use hard links for the working tree? Won't that edit
> > two repositories if you use an editor / command that edits files (as
> > opposed to delete/create?)
> 
> No, Ian means having multiple trees using the same repository for
> history storage.

"bzr branch --hardlink" does indeed create hardlinks for the working
tree, as the doc says:

  $ bzr help branch
  ...
    --hardlink            Hard-link working tree files where possible.
  ...

Cheers,
ChriS