[Monotone-devel] Re: wrapping up the changeset branch

[Asger Ottar Alstrup]

graydon hoare wrote:
> > - Efficient distribution of large files
>
> I don't know what sort of efficiency gain you might be thinking of. 
> perhaps something to do with shared sub-fragments, or simply avoidance 
> of copying?

It would be sufficient to avoid unnecessary copies.

> > - Footprint on each person machine should be a function of what they 
> > have checked out, not the history or what is in the repository
>
> but towards the goal you have in mind, it's theoretically feasible to 
> have the "backwards" fetch stop early, say only retrieve a small-ish 
> subgraph near the heads of a branch, perhaps all nodes under the least 
> dominator of the current heads. I say theoretically rather than 
> practically, because we haven't made any such feature yet.

OK. I see that we are getting closer. I guess the sqlite upgrade is only a 
matter of time, and if we got the feature mentioned above, the remaining 
issues are all "only" performance related.

Thanks,
Asger