[RFC] Removing the inventory concept from Bazaar.

[Dennis Benzinger]

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Datum: Wed, 9 May 2007 14:41:52 -0500
Von: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net>
An: Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers at digital-scurf.org>
CC: Bazaar <bazaar at lists.canonical.com>
Betreff: Re: [RFC] Removing the inventory concept from Bazaar.

> [...]
> 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.
> [...]

But compared to the size of a hundred thousand revisions of a hundred 
thousand files one gigabyte of noop records is probably not that much. And
storage is cheap these days, time is not. So if using the noop records
speeds things up I think the waste of space is acceptable.

Dennis