Evaluating Bazaar in a CVS environment.

[Andy Walker]

Neil Martinsen-Burrell <nmb <at> wartburg.edu> writes:

> That is correct, although new branches made inside a shared repository are
> *extremely* space efficient.

I'm fine with the empty directories, but I would be curious as to why they
would be created if the repository is shared and made with --no-trees.
Are they basically just a place to hang certain branch-specific metadata?
If so, why not just store this information in the central repository too?