[RFC] store inventory in tab-separated file

[Martin Pool]

On  2 Feb 2007, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:

> > My pet desire for a new inventory format is I'd like each of the values
> > to be annotated individually, so that we can do a completely
> > annotate-based merge.  (That works even with shallow branches that do
> > not store their common base)
> 
> My initial attempt to create format of one entry like this:
> 
> file	bzrignore-20050311232317-81f7b71efa2db11a	.bzrignore	TREE_ROOT
>  	revision	xxxx
>  	text_sha1	xxxx
>  	text_size	xxxx
>  	executable	yes
> 
> If I understand you correctly you'd like to have this:
> 
> file	bzrignore-20050311232317-81f7b71efa2db11a	
> 	name		.bzrignore
> 	parent_id	TREE_ROOT
>  	revision	xxxx
>  	text_sha1	xxxx
>  	text_size	xxxx
>  	executable	yes
> 
> Am I understand correctly this: "each of the values to be annotated individually"?
> 
> This change complicate things a bit and probably slowdown read operation
> because of additional checks but I try to test this implementation as well
> to see real numbers.

I'm not sure about Aaron, but I would think just having one line per
file and seeing when it was last changed would be enough.

-- 
Martin