[RFC] Remove support for basis knits?

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon Jun 26 16:55:36 BST 2006


On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 03:35 +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:
> 
> > Supporting basis knits uglifies our code somewhat, and makes it harder
> > to refactor (as I'm doing for log performance).  Therefore,  I propose
> > we remove support, until such time as they're actually being used.
> 
> +1.
> 
> The idea behind basis knits was that if you had to extract a full text
> from a remote location, parts of the text (deltas) could be fetched
> from a closer source; the basis knit.  Same for join operations.  A
> different way to implement --basis, sort of. But this was never
> realized.
> 
> Feel free to remove it if Robert don't complain.

Boom-shakalaka, bye bye basis.

Rob
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