Project plans

[Kevin Smith]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:47:07PM -0400, Kevin Smith wrote:
> 
>>So, just to confirm: there are no plans in the near future for Mercurial 
>>to support any kind of "centralized storage", "patch pooling", or other 
>>mechanisms that would allow lightweight branching without hardlinks?
> 
> Well I haven't personally been thinking about it much as I'm focused
> on getting the current feature set in a releasable form, and I haven't
> seen a proposal for how to do it that's really caught my eye.

Ok.

> Don't tell anyone, but you can actually do "centralized storage"
> already (in a CVS-like fashion), with an appropriate set of symlinks.
> Doing this a bit more sanely with appropriate locking and so on is
> easily achievable with an extension.

Um. I guess I need to amend my request to "...without hardlinks OR 
symlinks", since FAT filing systems have neither.

Thanks,

Kevin