Serializer_v5._pack_revision and _unpack_revision to become public?

[John A Meinel]

David Allouche wrote:
> Sorry for the slow reply.
> 
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 08:40 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> bzr has an api for accessing revisions - branch.get_revision. If there
>> are issues with that API, lets work on them. Conversely, if we are going
>> to add other apis for accessing and storing revisions, we should have a
>> reason to do so. 
> 
> The specific problem is that Branch.get_revision is just unbearably slow
> for the use of bzrk: traversing the whole ancestry.
> 
> On a higher level, the requirement is "get the complete ancestry of a
> revision, with placeholders for ghost revisions".

Is there a reason you can't get the weave and go through the ancestry
map there. And then lazily load the revisions?

John
=:->


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