Comment 2 for bug 46561

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This has already been proposed. See http://bazaar-vcs.org/HistoryHorizon

or my May 10 "Plans for post 0.8" message on the mailing

Aaron

Jeff Licquia wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> This is a wishlist bug. Filing on the recommendation of Jeff Bailey.
>
> We have lightweight checkouts, which depend entirely on access to the
> upstream branch, and heavy checkouts, which are fully independent and
> have full history. Would it be possible to have a hybrid checkout,
> which had some of the history locally, but not all of it?
>
> The idea is that the checkout would be "heavy" when dealing with
> "recent" commits (for some definition of "recent"), but would go into
> "light" mode when the user started working with commits beyond "recent".
> Most importantly, the user could work offline and commit just like a
> "heavy" checkout for the most common case, where the previous few
> revisions are all that the user cares about.
>
> Darcs has something like this: "darcs get --partial" only retrieves the
> most recent changesets.
>
> ** Affects: bzr (upstream)
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: Unconfirmed
>

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