Re: Marginal features

Nathaniel Smith <njs-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:20:14AM -0400, Walter Landry wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Arch/ArX-style continuations aren't the only solution to this problem.
> Like 'darcs get --partial', we plan to support something like
> 'monotone pull --partial', which gives you only recent history
> locally.

ArX and kin also have the equivalent of "--partial" by partial
mirroring.  However, it doesn't record where the full copy is, while
branches do.  Perhaps less important, it also is not as lightweight as
it could be.  It has to carry around a full copy of the tree.

Cheers,
Walter