New index format

[James Westby]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 15:51 +0000, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> For 'log' we could just punt and introduce a "flatlog" that wouldn't do
> revision numbers and would do simple topo-sorted output. Which you can
> get by just walking the graph (no sorting or post processing, etc.)
> 

I'm looking at this at the moment. What I have so far is not in
the LogFormatter framework, and in fact involves new methods on
branch/repository.

However the last part isn't strictly necessary, and is perhaps
completely useless as I haven't implemented reverse log yet.

> I *would* like to see a quick fix for fast-to-get lookups for "-1" etc,
> since we already have the mechanism in place. I'll actually try putting
> something together for it.

That would be something useful, I often use "log -r -1".

Thanks,

James