Bazaar NG performance on large repositories

[John Arbash Meinel]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Nicholas Allen wrote:
>>> So creating the working tree seems to take quite a long while. Branching
>>> in a shared repository without trees is lightning fast though!
> 
>>> bzr log some-file
>>> This command took a very long time. In fact, I gave up waiting for it to
>>> complete. No output was seen on the terminal at all - even after 5
>>> minutes. I think in its current state this would be completely unusable
>>> for us. I hope that bzr will see some performance improvements here.
> 
> log some-file reads the inventory of each commit, so it scales with tree
> size.  That's a limit of the current implementation, though.  We can
> look at each file to see what revisions modified it, though I'm not sure
> whether that will detect all kinds of changes.

AFAIK, the only thing it wouldn't detect would be delete. Renames and
modifications are properly tracked.

John
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