iterating over revisions in a branch

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:02:40AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote about 'Re: iterating over revisions in a branch':
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 14:05 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

> > > It occurred to me just now that it doesn't feel right.  If I'm iterating
> > > over revisions, I shouldn't have to extract the revision during the body of
> > > the iterator loop, surely instead of the revision id I should get back the
> > > whole revision?
> > Efficiency. The list of revision ids can be read directly from the
> > .bzr/revision-history file. Reading the revision itself requires reading 
> > the appropriate file in .bzr/revisions/ (amongst other files). 
> Eh? return an iterator over revisions, no revisions need to be
> constructed until you actually access them, if you reverse the iterator
> I'm pretty sure you can implement some __thing__ to tell python that you
> know how to reverse better than it does.
Oops, I didn't know that. I guess I still think like a C programmer
;-) Sorry.

Cheers,

Jelmer


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