Reinitialize the branches?

[Jim Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville
> <cody-somerville at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > If you do a lightweight checkout than you can't take advantage of the
> > distributed nature of bzr, IIRC.
>
> That's ok - to be honest we don't really use the distributed nature of
> bzr... Given that we push to a single branch on Launchpad, pushing
> shouldn't take long.
>
> Having said that I've also been thinking about starting the history
> again for the next release, given the size of our current branches.
> Even though Launchpad will gradually get better and better support for
> large branches, it's still a large download for anyone who wants the
> history.
>

We should also consider using the new default pack format that is available
in bzr.

Here's more info on it: http://pastebin.ca/924202 &
http://beuno.com.ar/archives/48

Jim
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