A few questions/potential issues in Bazaar-NG

[Aaron Bentley]

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John A Meinel wrote:
> You've said a few times about bzr using weaves, and to my knowledge,
> that is just one possibility. There are a few of us which are concerned
> about how weaves would work. I think both Aaron Bentley and I prefer
> 'revfiles' which I think are from mercurial. Which are append-only and a
> mix of deltas and full texts, which should be fully possible to do
> safely over sftp.

AIUI, weaves would be much better than the current storage for
branching, and only marginally worse for pulls.

It's also possible to do append-only weaves.  Trivially, you can just
store the weave itself in a revfile.  I have also done some work on a
natively append-only weave format; you can see my work-so-far here:

http://www.aaronbentley.com/weavediff

So I'm comfortable going with weaves for now since
1. latency trumps throughput most of the time, and weaves are only
somewhat larger than the original files
2. we can do append-only weaves later, if we think it's valuable.

Aaron
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