RFC : Shadow Trees

Marius Kruger amanic at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 21:29:10 BST 2008


2008/10/23 Adrian Wilkins <adrian.wilkins at gmail.com>

> ...
> What if you could have a tree in your inventory that contained files that
> by
> default, didn't get checked out? In some other respects, a shadow tree
> would be
> normal - you could list it's inventory using bzr ls, cat files within it,
> etc.
> But in a working tree...
>
>  - If something is absent, it's not presumed to be deleted, just unchanged.
>  - By default, shadow trees are not checked out onto disk
>
> (and versions that didn't support it could fall back to treating it like a
> normal tree)


I think you can configure it in a similar way as .bzrignore
I wonder if it would be possible to write a plugin for this, or if you'd
have to implement this in the core..

regards
marius
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