correcting old log messages

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 17:54 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> 
> I have no idea how Bazaar works internally so perhaps
> something in Bazaar's design or implementation would
> prevent doing this, but is it hypothetically reasonable?

In short - yes, we could add another dimension of versioning, so that
revisions and their content are versioned, as well as the users source
tree being versioned (the revisions of the source tree are 'bzr
revisions', I have no idea what we'd call the revisions of the
revisions :).

But its a lot of complexity; it has storage and performance implications
(if you have 100000 revisions, do you want to check all of them on every
operation for updates? if not, where do the changes get journalled so we
can scan the journal... code code and more code).

Currently, it does not seem worth the complexity or investment to write
this. AFAIK none of the modern VCS systems do this. (svn is not
modern ;)).

-Rob
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