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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Tue Sep 7 23:06:59 CEST 2004

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 04:51 pm, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

What is the disadvantage of Berkeley DB that the file storage of svn 1.1 will remove? One of the things that you could do in CVS that you can't easily do because of the DB approach is to ultimately remove a file, along with its entire history (by removing the ,v file). Along with that goes the option of moving part of a repository into another repository.

I'm not concerned with people deliberately hosing their repositories; they shouldn't do that.

The advantage I see is that we won't have to deal with hosed databases having to be "recovered" to make the Subversion server useful again.

I certainly agree with Jp's comments about how databases are used, but as long as the server is working, that's less of an issue for me.

Neither is either with svn because of the DB thing. However, I understand that it won't become simpler with the file storage, either, as the files being created don't directly correlate to files of the versions file system. So you still can't delete a single file with all of its history, nor can you move just a part of the repository.

Again, that's not my desire. I'm happy to not manipulate the content of the repository directly.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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