A few questions/potential issues in Bazaar-NG

[Matthieu Moy]

Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:

> 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.

What's nice with the "append-only" is that it's easy to split the
history in different archives (cheap remote branch). For example, when
I microbranch from Bazaar (with baz), I usually do not create a
cachedrev, and my archive contains only the part of the history I'm
interested in.

That's much harder to do if "the part of the history I'm interested
in" is split and spread in the weave file.


By curiosity: Is there a particular reason for not using your
append-only weave?

-- 
Matthieu