RE: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

["Nigel Weeks" <nweeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would be huge! 

I actually meant to key each file, and version of each file with an integer, and store it out on disk, and store the metadata(checksums) in the DB for speed, but a lack of coffee prevented the conveyance of the full idea. ;-)

. ..Going away now to read up on git...

Nigel Weeks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-errors@crater.dragonflybsd.org [mailto:users-
> errors@crater.dragonflybsd.org] On Behalf Of Simon 'corecode' Schubert
> Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2007 9:12 AM
> To: users@crater.dragonflybsd.org
> Subject: Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync
> 
> Nigel Weeks wrote:
> > Just having an idea about this...are there any files in the source tree
> that exceed 32kbytes?
> >
> > What if a database solution were created to:
> > Contain every version of every file of every branch in a nicely indexed
> database table
> > The md5/sha256 of each entry mentioned above
> > 512 byte chunks of each file mentioned above in a nicely indexed table
> > The md5/sha256 of every 512 bytes of the above mentioned file.
> 
> uh-ah.  i guess that's for checkout, but still it seems very wrong.  I
> mean, really.  Uh, I can't stop shuddering.  I just hope you are not
> serious :)
> 
> and the database will be really huge...
> 
> actually, it sounds like git, just worse.
> 
> > File checkins could simply be a file upload, or a mime encoded fetch
> request, or an email message, or an ftp drop, or an scp copy, or an rsync
> push...
> 
> file checkins right now are cvs checkins, and I guess that will stay for
> some time.
> 
> cheers
>   simon
> 
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