Re: collected vs distributed working copy metadata

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Branko [iso-8859-2] Čibej wrote:
> > 5) Metadata in _one file_ in each directory
> >
> > pro: subdirs are easily detachable;
> > exactly as many globbing problems as, e.g., .cvsignore
> > con: would have to be some sort of filesystem-in-a-file,
> > not easily examined or modified by hand.
>
> Also, this will suffer in large directories or when very many users doing
> operations on the same dir since all operations will use (lock) the same
> single file.

Not if it's a proper database, with record locking. And that's
a prerequisite, anyway.

    Brane

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