[MERGE] Inventory.iter_just_entries()

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 09:34 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> 
> >> I strongly agree that iter_just_entries() shouldn't be used without
> >> careful consideration in each case. That's part of the reason why
> >> I didn't make changes throughout the codebase to begin using it
> >> in this patch. I do feel however that generating data that isn't
> >> needed is generally wasteful so we need some way of avoiding that in
> >> the inventory API.
> 
> > 
> > I'm fine with it as a stop-gap, but I think the code that is using it
> > should actually be written differently. As there are limits to time and
> > energy, we can start with this until we get to the point of changing things.
> 
> Is this bb:comment, tweak or approve? Perhaps I should make the API
> _iter_just_entries() for now to discourage usage outside of bzrlib?

I don't think this should be something other people use (as John says,
we don't really want to be using it ourselves even).

I'd say - land it in brisbane core with a big XXX beside it, to be
stripped before merging to bzr.dev.
-Rob
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