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Re: Sparse directories: State of the Onion

From: David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net>
Date: 2007-09-08 20:58:58 CEST

On 8/30/07, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
> I recently reviewed all the remaining sparse directories stuff. The
> quick summary:
>
> For one programmer, it would be about 2-4 weeks of work. Luckily,
> it's very parallelizeable, so as long as we coordinate, we can
> systematically mop this stuff up. Also, some things can maybe be
> deferred to after 1.5; not everything on the list is a showstopper.
>
> The detailed version:
>
> Here's a rundown on all the issues. (I'm currently finishing #2882
> ['make commit --depth work'], and intend to spend some parallel time
> on #2846. I'll start on #2844 right after that, which overlaps with
> some of the other issues.)
>
> Please post if there's anything important not on this list:

Backwards-compatibility testing! My initial efforts in July revealed
some serious bugs (which we fixed); unfortunately, I got busy
finishing my thesis and moving to San Francisco and haven't finished
new-client-old-server test infrastructure, but given the bugs we
already found, I would be incredibly uncomfortable releasing 1.5
without a way to automatically verify behavior of old clients with new
servers and vice versa.

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser_at_davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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