[RFC] browsing history API

[Johan Rydberg]

Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> writes:

> On 23 May 2006, Johan Rydberg <jrydberg at gnu.org> wrote:
>> > I've been wondering if we should save for each revision a list of the
>> > modifified files, with some details including their file name and
>> > directory, and the previous revision that modified that particular file
>> > - essentially a structured diff between the two inventories, similar to
>> > what is held by a TreeDelta.  Some operations need this information,
>> > including log -v and files_affected.  If we include the previous
>> > revision then we can skip back through these records without needing to read
>> > every revision.
>> 
>> Something like the 'revision changes' concept I used in my initial
>> knit work?
>
> I think so - can you point me to a description if you have one handy, to
> refresh my memory?

All I have around is this:

  http://www.ginandtonique.org/jrydberg/revisionchanges.py

~j