[RFC] Removing the inventory concept from Bazaar.

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:45:11PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Daniel Silverstone, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 11:12 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > 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)

Don't forget size as well as time.

If a noop record is a hundred bytes (revids's can easily be over 50
just by themselves), and you have a hundred thousand revision of a
hundred thousand files, you've got a gigabyte of noop records.


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