Re: Marginal features

Bram Cohen <bram-V2j9jqiNNzWqrLZZDAjWCg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then there are the marginal features, which might or might not be good
> ideas, here are some of them -

One more:

lightweight branches - Making it possible to branch from a project
without having to lug all of the history around.  I think ArX and
tla/baz are the only ones to do this.  Darcs' tag feature might
support this somewhat, but I am not sure.  Full support requires
recording what repository a branch came from.  Codeville, Monotone,
BK, etc. all have a single repo that everyone copies.  I have read
reports of this causing problems with BK, although I don't have a
reference ready.  Basically, the repo got up to 9.2 GB, most of which
was not needed day-to-day.

Cheers,
Walter