[rfc] bzr-colo into core

[Martin Pool]

On 24 March 2011 21:58, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Martin Pool пишет:
>>
>> I have looked a bit at how Mercurial does it. Thanks for explaining it.
>>
>> The repository and branch breakdown is fairly similar; bzr too has a
>> DAG that is pointed to by branch tips.  One difference is that I
>> believe hg generally hardlinks repository-internal files when you make
>> new repositories on the same disk, whereas bzr copies, and rather
>> wants to avoid having multiple repositories unless you really want
>> them to be separate.
>
> I wish bzr can hardlink packs and indices while cloning repo locally.
> Actually we're at the better position here than hg: packs and indices are
> immutable, only pack-names should be different when you commit new stuff and
> clones diverge. Packing repo in one clone should not affect other clones I
> think, but maybe it's important to break links before moving old packs into
> obsolete area. And it should work on the Windows too (although Martin gz
> metioned some issues there).

> Can we?

We could do that.  I thought there was a bug for this already, but I
can't see one, so I filed <http://pad.lv/742183>.

Martin