Introduction to history deltas

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:51, Matt Lavin wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > Right.  So one way of looking at it is as a hunk organization method.
> > You would either organize hunks by file (like weaves do) or by revision
> > (history deltas).
>
> Hopefully this will not be a completely off-topic comment, but if a goal
> of bzr is to ever support a partial checkout of a tree then it seems
> like it would be better to have the data organized by file, not
> revision.  Maybe not,  but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

Only if by "partial" you mean "checkout a subset of files". When I think of a 
"partial" checkout I think "checkout a subset of history", in which case 
per-revision storage might be preferable. Swings and roundabouts.

cheers

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