[PATCH][RFC] Make log filename faster

[Martin Pool]

On 29 Mar 2006, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:17:40AM -0500 I heard the voice of
> Aaron Bentley, and lo! it spake thus:
> >
> > 3. checking the relevent inventories to ensure that the file was
> > actually changed.
> 
> I still think we need to track filenames on --unchanged commits, so we
> can use forced commits to update/note things without changing the
> file; given that, log should probably show changes that didn't change
> anything, but are marked as affecting the file.

At the moment a --unchanged commit records nothing but a new revision
and inventory.  If the filenames given contain no changes then they are
effectively ignore. 

Your mail points to an interesting improvement, which would be to
actually record new revisions of the named file (or directory) to help
with log.  But it won't work at the moment.

-- 
Martin