Fastest way to find repository heads?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 00:04 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>   
>> Admittedly this is something that should ultimately be fixed by making
>> "bzr branch" do the right thing and leave a working branch behind, but
>> until then I think bzr-git should use dead and live heads rather than
>> just live heads. 
>>     
>
> While I think it would be nice to do that, I think in terms of tradeoffs
> its not worth doing that. Last time I checked, git doesn't do that, and
> neither does hg.
>   
What tradeoffs exactly? As a user, I'd be happy to pay a small
performance overhead to have "bzr branch" be resumable, it'd be a large
usability improvement.

Cheers,

Jelmer