[rfc] bzrlib/textinv.py is not used anymore

[John Arbash Meinel]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> I don't find any import of bzrlib/textinv.py module.
> It seems this module unused from the end of 2005 year.
> Can we delete this file? Or add the comment why for it needed?
> 

I think it was a research inventory format. As far as I know we've
*never* used it for anything in production.

This is a little tricky to verify, but you could do something like:

for f in .bzr/repository/knits/*/*.knit; do
  txt=`zcat $f | grep textinv`
  if [ -n "$txt" ]; then
    echo $f
    echo $txt
  fi
done

That searches all of the texts of all of your history for the phrase
"textinv". (references to that module).

The only references I can find are in an old version of 'command.py'.

Specifically:
mbp at sourcefrog.net-20050411024445-a2d4fa7e39309d2300533a6a
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 236
committer: mbp at sourcefrog.net
timestamp: Mon 2005-04-11 12:44:45 +1000
message:
  - Experiments in inventory performance

So AFAICT this was just a prototype.

Even weirder is that 'annotate' ascribes most of the lines to myself,
and I honestly don't remember working on it. :) They are also attributed
to a revision that doesn't seem to fit (comment: Fixed comparison issue
with RevisionSpec versus None).

Anyway, the code isn't used, so we can get rid of it. But it might also
be useful when evaluating alternatives.

John
=:->



Anyway, the only things I saw that actually used it was
"cmd_dump_text_inventory"