bzr to have shallow partial clones (stacked branches) soon

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sat, 31 May 2008 09:05:00 +0200, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
>> It's almost 50% of the solution to the reasons why dVCS adoption is
>> difficult to `sell' for projects with such a big history:
>>
>>    * Very large .hg/ history for all clones (which makes multiple
>>      clones a bit expensive in disk space where hardlinks are not
>>      always an option).
>>
>>    * Lack of `partial checkouts' (which makes it a bit hard to work
>>      with only `src/sys/dev/sound/pci', if 500 MB of source have to be
>>      checked out to get a full `tip' checkout).
>>
>> I'd be definitely interested in something that supported either of these
>> two or both :)
>
> Actually there is a GSoC project under way to address at least the
> second item on your list. If possible also the first. Had slipped my
> mind when I posted the blog link.

Yep.  I've seen that in the list email.  I can't help with the GSoC
project, but it's definitely "interesting" :)