Diff and merge of archives - proposal

[jbowtie at amathaine.com]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> jbowtie at amathaine.com пишет:
>>
>> Again, looking for feedback on obvious design issues before I start my
>> implementation.
>>
>> I propose adding the handling of archives to the core diff and merge
>> algorithms via a DiffArchive class. There will be a new flag
>> --treat-archives-as-binaries which can be used to avoid the
>> performance hit of compressing and decompressing archives.
>
> I'd prefer enable flag instead of disable, i.e. --archive-support or
> something like that to enable the feature instead of disabling it.
>
> Also you may want to look at using rules file, or store settings in
> branch.conf or in the .bzrmeta/rules or something else to have this option
> configured in some config file.
>

Yes, it makes sense to make it opt-in until further notice. And we
would want that to be configurable as well, obviously.