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1185.1.29
by Robert Collins
merge merge tweaks from aaron, which includes latest .dev |
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Compared to OpenCM |
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http://opencm.org/ |
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Not very stable; apparently inactive. |
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* Separated working copy & repository model. |
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* Files have long-lived identifiers. |
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* Files and revisions identified by the SHA-1 hash of their content |
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(as in monotone); explicitly makes it easier to be sure we have the |
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right one and prevents some tricks. |
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* Binding of objects to external names done on the client, so you can |
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version e.g. database objects, instead of files. |
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* Directories are inferred by having files that exist under them; |
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empty directories are a special case with an object of type DIR. |
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This is a bit ugly. I might rather have files given a name only |
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relative to their parent directory. So renaming a directory will |
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only update the entry for the directory, and everything will move |
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with it. |
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* Access-control rules about who can write to a central server. |
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* Their design is somewhat similar to ours and used a lot of disk |
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space -- enough to be a significant problem. |
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* Assigning human names to branches proved problematic -- i think this |
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is a good reason to rely on the filesystem/URL space, which people |
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already know how to manage and deal with. |