Things to remove for 2.0

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Gioele Barabucci wrote:
>> The practical use is that it retains the ability to merge with related
>> trees.  In particular, it makes Nested Trees possible.
>>     
> From what I see it makes the nesting of some trees easier. But I doubt that 
> is something really needed.
>
> As I said earlier, I see a very common use case for split implemented on top 
> of fast-import-filter. What I don't see is a practical use case for split as 
> it is now. For example a Google search for "bzr split" returned no articles 
> or tutorials about that commands. Does anybody use it?
>   
Not on a day-to-day basis but I've e.g. used it to split subvertpy out
of bzr-svn.

Something that might be useful in relation to split is the ability to
not carry all old history around; in this case the history from before
the split (history horizons? I can't remember what the current name for
this is).

Cheers,

Jelmer