Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory

[Jean Helou]

Stefan Monnier a écrit :

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> There is no fundamental technical reason why Arch needs a full inventory
> here.  I understand it's probably due to the need to keep the code clean
> and simple, but I think it's a serious problem so it might be worth it to
> try and find a way to solve the problem while keeping the code clean (tho
> maybe less simple).  The reason why I think it's a serious problem is that
> project sizes tend to grow pretty fast, so it's not going to disappear any
> time soon.
>
>  
I would say that file renaming/move detection seems a good fundamental 
technical reason for this isn't it ?
Trying to improve the speed of a full inventory could be a good thing, 
however I recall that there have already been patches to do just that. I 
don't know if they are merged yet. Maybe trying to think of a caching 
method could help a bit more ...


jean