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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: read-only working copies using links
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:43:20 +0100
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 19:39, Chad Dombrova <chadrik@gmail.com> wrote:
> what's the case against it, other than the obvious, that it will take more
> work?

Good question, I think it was mostly that, someone has to implement it
(possibly as part of packv4). Backwards compatibility is of course
always an concern, but I'm not too familiar with the subject, perhaps
other people on the list (or even those were at the gittogether) can
comment?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier