[RFC] kbfiles: an extension to track binary files with less wasted bandwidth

Andrew Pritchard awpritchard at gmail.com
Sat Aug 13 23:53:00 CDT 2011


That was actually a conscious decision to make the path as short as
possible to avoid taking up valuable characters on filesystems whose
path lengths are limited.  (This can also help avoid forcing the
revlog filenames into the hashed form on fncache repositories,
assuming I understand fncache correctly).

Ultimately, the standin files aren't particularly user-visible, in
that every command is wrapped to hide their existence from the user,
so I took the practical side of the tradeoff over the aesthetics of
'ls -a'.


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