bazaar Digest, Vol 47, Issue 82

[Alexander Belchenko]

Paul Moore пишет:
> 2009/1/17 Adrian Wilkins <adrian.wilkins at gmail.com>:
>>> Maybe if a branch could simply have a "pointer" to a repository which
>>> was kept somewhere else, that would do the trick.
>> bzr co --lightweight /home/my/repo/branch working_tree
> 
> But that requires that every "working" branch (where I'm actually
> editing files) has to have a corresponding dummy branch in the repo.
> And so branching is still not cheap (in this case because of the
> additional steps involved, rather than because of elapsed time of the
> bzr branch command).

I guess today answer is: using `bzr branch --stacked`. User even can set this
as default branch method via aliases.

It's both fast and using "pointer" to original repository.

Paul, also I'm understand why you prefer Mercurial, but I think you just
don't want to try to change your habits and learn "bzr way".

Bzr unlikely will use hardlinks in the future, because bzr repo format
don't reflect working tree structure as hg did. But I think you knew it
already. Hg model is simpler for you, but in the same time it has its own
limitations.