[RFC] Tracking file copies

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 12:03 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 18:02 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > On 19 Jun 2006, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Doing it as metadata is not really a problem. The question is what kind
> > > > of performance do you want from this. eg. Are you willing to wait for a
> > > > complete search through history to find the point where the file_id was
> > > > marked as a copy from the other id? Do we only allow creating a copy
> > > > record at the time of creation, or can you do it at any time.
> [...]
> > I think the first four are useful even, so by all means work on a spec
> > that will support them.  It seems like if you explicitly know about the
> > copy at all, you will know at commit time?
> I've put some basic info into the spec at
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrFileCopies, I'll get back to it later, but I'd
> like to have a look at tags first.

https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+spec/filecopies

Is a possibly more useful URL to pass around, as that has the status
metadata attached to it. Also, the summary in launchpad is rather...
weak at the moment :)

Rob
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