[Python-Dev] Subversion (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 17:03:39 CEST 2004

Somebody in this thread said that files don't belong in a db, and proposed to only put the metadata in the db. That argument seems misguided to me: when recovering the db and filesystem after a host crash, you'd have to go to extra hoops to make sure the metadata matches the filesystem data. Note that Perforce puts everything in a database and it's rock solid. The main problems I had with svn's use of Berkeley DB were packaging issues (but then, I was using a pre-1.0 beta of svn) and poor management of the Berkeley DB by the svn code, requiring frequent db "recovery" actions; also a bug that caused accesses by different users to hose the database in a subtle way. All of that seems fixable.

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