Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: How new-style codeville merge works

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:00:51AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> My suspicion is that you could re-sort the on-disk weave by version
> number, like so
> 
> version 1 of line 1
> version 1 of line 2
> version 1 of line 3
> ...
> version 2 of line 2
> version 2 of line 4
> ...
> version 3 of line 12
> 
> making it append-only, without having to add much information to the
> metadata half of the file.

If you squint, this is RCS :-).

The whole reason to use a weave in the first place, though, is that
precise cdv-merge needs efficient access to a global, consistent
linearization of all lines that have ever been in a file. So, well,
the traditional weave ordering is the whole point :-).

-- Nathaniel

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