On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:51:56PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:

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> Sean wrote:

> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:24:15 -0400

> > Aaron Bentley  wrote:

> >>- - you can use a checkout to maintain a local mirror of a read-only

> >>  branch (I do this with http://bazaar-vcs.com/bzr/bzr.dev).

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> > I'm not sure what you mean here.  A bzr checkout doesn't have any history

> > does it?

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> By default, they do.  You must use a flag to get a checkout with no history.

If I can add some clarification: There is a lightweight checkout and

heavyweight checkout. The former contains no history and does everything

(except status and I am not sure about diff) by accessing the remote

data. The later contains mirror of the history data and does

write-through on commit (and otherwise behaves like normal branch with

repository)
What would be really useful would be a checkout, or even a branch (ie.

with ability to commit locally), that would only contain history data

since some point. This would allow downloading very little data when

branching, but than working locally as with normal repository clone.
In bzr this was already discussed and the storage supports so called

"ghost" revisions, whose existence is known, but not their data. There

are even repositories around that contain them (created by converting

data from arch), but to my best knowledge there is no user interface to

create branches or checkouts with partial data.
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