[RFC] Removing the inventory concept from Bazaar.

[Daniel Silverstone]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 11:12 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > Your third assumption is that you can add a noop record to every
> > unaffected knit index on commit
> Yes, but I had hoped that the constant factors would be small enough
> that we could get away with it.

Aye, disk operations tend to be cheap.

> > Won't this mean that commit time will be proportional to size of tree
> > not number of modifications?
> Yes, but I can imagine a very, very small constant factor, because we'd
> only be adding a knit index entry.

But still, however small that constant factor, you're back to
O(size-of-tree)

> > Also, won't this mean that a push will always have to update every knit
> > index? Seriously increasing the potential number of round trips?
> That is more worrying.

And to be frank, is my primary concern.

D.

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