[RFC] question about different behavior of WorkingTree.iter_changes

[Aaron Bentley]

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> It's inevitable for me to use id2path for this cases because I need to know
> file basename or at least its file extension.

I don't see why that follows; the basename is an attribute of inventory
entries.  You don't need id2path to find out the basename.

>> Note that we are trying to avoid *ever* generating a full inventory, but
>> if we do generate one, we cache it.  I suppose it's possible that you're
>> doing something that invalidates the cache, but I think it's unlikely.
> 
> Actually I don't need full inventory, just mapping between file_id and
> filenames
> and vice versa.

You were worried that id2path might be generating full inventories every
time.  I was trying to say that I think this is unlikely.

Aaron
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