Comment 2 for bug 495502

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:59 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > affects bzr
> > status confirmed
> > importance low
> >
> > Not all repository implementations provide VersionedFiles. It would be
> > nice if get_known_graph_ancestry() was exposed as part of the Repository
> > API so that it can be used for these repository formats.

> You *can* always do:
>
> from bzrlib import graph as _mod_graph
>
> kg = _mod_graph.KnownGraph(dict(repo.get_graph().iter_ancestry([??])))
>
> (You may need to filter out ghosts, which will be repopulated in kg, I'm
> not positive.)
>
> It is, essentially, how I would implement
> Repo.get_known_graph_ancestry().
Thanks - it'd be nice if callers don't have to worry about this, and
implementations may be able to do this faster (bzr-svn in particular
should be able to do this).

Cheers,

Jelmer