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| John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote Re: Please allow annotating removed files | #1 |
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At the moment, we work in only 'tree snapshots', which means that when a file is deleted, it "just disappears" and we don't record the *delta* of it having been deleted.
This is certainly a limitation of how we are recording information. Though there are a few possibilities...
1) 'bzr log -v' uses a tree comparison between revisions (so looks at the delta, rather than the snapshot). We have a few ideas as to how to make that faster (split-up inventories, recursive hashes, journaled inventories)
2) Consider how to record something that is only a delta (delete) as part of a snapshot. Journaled Inventories might be a way to go about it.
It is certainly a limitation that we run into from time to time.