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  • Committer: Martin Pool
  • Date: 2008-04-24 07:22:53 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 3415.
  • Revision ID: mbp@sourcefrog.net-20080424072253-opmjij7xfy38w27f
Remove every assert statement from bzrlib!

Depending on the context they are:

 * turned into an explicit if/raise of either AssertionError 
   or something more specific -- particularly where they protect
   programming interfaces, complex invariants, or data file integrity
 * removed, if they're redundant with a later check, not protecting
   a meaningful invariant
 * turned into a selftest method on tests

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that only certain files should be compared.
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Performance can be further improved by caching comparisons to avoid repeating
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by
 
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by 
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``merge``.  Merge is aware of the relationship of a text merge's result to
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the THIS value, and the THIS value is generally the basis value.  So the
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comparison is latent, but present.  The only issue is extracting it.