[jblack: Re: [tools-discuss] Evaluation notes on bzr-0.7]

[Aaron Bentley]

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James Blackwell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:09:35PM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 
>>James Blackwell wrote:
>>>-1 on this concept. This would require documentation for installation on
>>>how to install inotify daemons for any platform that we want to support
>>>Bazaar-NG users on.
>>
>>That's a strawman.  I never proposed that either the 'bk edit' model or
>>the inotify daemon be mandatory.
> 
> 
> Whoops. I thought you were seriously suggesting it. For a moment I thought
> you were suggesting that this would be an option in Bazaar-NG, which would
> leave me having to document it.

I was seriously suggesting that bzr support a mode in which it must be
notified of changes, instead of scanning for them, because if your tree
is too big to scan, you shouldn't scan it.  OpenSolaris is at or near
this size.

What you must document is between yourself and your employer.  This
would not be a configuration required of most users.  Only users with
large trees would want to prevent bzr from scanning for changes, but
they could do that by manually using "bzr edit" or by configuring their
tools to use it, or by specifying files at the commandline.  In any
case, an inotify daemon can only support Linux by definition.

Aaron
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