Nathaniel W Filardo wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:00PM -0400, Max Battcher wrote:
Certainly one possible solution here would be to simply carry over the
Hash: lines from the darcs-2 inventory format as (optional) hints for
file paths in context files. Considering the otherwise congruency of the
context and inventory files I would hope this might be something easy to
achieve (and would be useful generally), and I'm hoping the reason it
hasn't been done is simply because it hasn't thought to be done.
While we're talking about revving the storage, would it be feasible to
switch _all_ references to patches to be by hash only?
I agree that this should be put onto the table for consideration... My
only questions would be as to whether losing the obvious "sanity check"
of having the patch name/comment/date/old hash for (super rare?) hash
collisions is something to be concerned with?
Beyond that, it certainly would reduce the bandwidth used by context
files and patch contexts if they consisted of nothing more than a list
of hashes. Not that bandwidth of existing context files is terrible in
this gmail era, but it is a consideration.
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