Arch's merge history handling (was: macs Bazaar repository)

[Stefan Monnier]

[ Removed emacs-devel because it's off-topic ]

> Arch records merge history in the source tree itself, using
> ordinary files, referring to that global name-space.   The

Yes, it was a really neat trick, but after having used it, it has
significant shortcomings, most importantly disk space used, inode space
used, unreliability (tho it's fairly minor), and performance cost due to
the added disk/inode count.

A bit of special-handling for that data to keep it in fewer files and in
compressed form would have a gone a long way to make it a lot better.


        Stefan