Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular [was: Re-linking to revlib implemented]

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 14:28, James Blackwell wrote:

> One of the things that seems to steer users away from creating
> microbranches is a fear of cruft. Speaking for myself, I felt this very
> strongly when I first started branching. I've also heard others speak of
> this.
> 
> We could solve this (thusly encouraging microbranches even more) by
> providing a method for users to "hide" no longer active portions of an
> archive.

Let me say, for the nth time: yuck.

Hiding branches doesn't change storage requirements, tree dependencies,
and the like.

Teaching the users better... now thats a good way.

Rob
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