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

[James Blackwell]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:14:52PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> 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 providing a method for users to "hide" no longer active portions of an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.

This is a good thing! 

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

This is actually something that doesn't just help out newbies. It can help
out others as well. For example, I've got gobs of branches that I no
longer care about. I want them to hang around because of branch
dependancies, but I don't plan to work on them any more. 

Lets go about this differently. :) 

I think I have a way to handle this that is more palatable to you. Sealed
branches are equivilant (but not identical) to the concept of a "closed"
branch.

I can set up rbrowse to not display sealed branches by default. This gives
people the ability to "hide" branches in a way that makes sense from an
arch standpoint. 

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