[MERGE][0.15] Speed up 'bzr status' in xml trees

[John Arbash Meinel]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> Oh, and when did we change 'basis-inventory-cache' to use format 7
>> instead of format 6?
> 
> I changed it when I created my WorkingTree4, which was a WorkingTree3
> with the inventory format changed to 7.
> 
> It might give a speed boost to switch the basis format back to 5,
> because then it can use the repository inventory text verbatim.
> 

It probably would make sense to do so for everything that isn't
'dirstate-with-subtree'. But at this point I don't know that it is worth
the effort.

>> PS> I'm still getting failures for blackbox.test_merge_directive because
>> I don't have an SMTP host running on the local machine. Did we only fix
>> the non-blackbox test?
> 
> Dunno.  I can check.
> 
> Aaron

Thanks,
John
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