[RFC] Removing the inventory concept from Bazaar.

[Aaron Bentley]

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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Robert and I have been exploring some alternative approaches to looking
> up content efficiently.  He proposed maintaining a file-id ->
> revision-id file.  I think maybe we can leverage the revision history to
> find the latest version of a file.

Another option would be to do content lookups based on path.

Given path a/b, you open root, determine the latest revision of a.  Open
a, determine the latest revision of b.  Open b.

This would require serious revision of our interfaces, but is akin to
the way Git works.

Aaron
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