Re: Marginal features

Nathaniel Smith <njs-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:37:12PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Aren't such mirrors read-only, though?

By default, yes.  You can make it writeable, but it is not documented
and somwhate unsafe (because they don't use hashes for revision names
... yet).

Cheers,
Walter