[Gnu-arch-users] Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Note also that the feature I described can be implemented without any need
>> for side-info: all it needs is the {arch} patch-logs and the diffs from
>> the archive.  No need to cache any kind of annotation.

> It can, but with terribly slow performance. To trace a particular line
> of code your working directory, you need to download and untar the
> all the changesets (this means also the information about the files
> you don't care about) up to the corresponding diff ...

Right, you do need abentley's archive cache, or a local mirror of
the archive.

> BTW, I think fai already has this feature in addition to annotate.

Indeed, and the performance is very much acceptable (unless you don't have
a local copy of the relevant parts of the archive).


        Stefan