Re: First impressions...

Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se> writes:

> You know, when I first encountered Subversion and read about the
> design, about single version trees and cheap copies, and the XML
> tree-delta stuff in particular, I though "Oh, they're using hardlinks.
> Whenever a new version is created, new inodes are created from the
> changes and up, and everything else is just hardlinked to the old
> revision. Very clever."
>
> When I found out that this was actually not the case, but an ugly db
> was used instead, I was mildly shocked. :-)

We *are* using hardlinks, just ones within an imaginary filesystem. :-)

> If anyone want to build a new backend along these lines, I don't mind
> giving a hand...

Go for it!

I also know that gstein and others have expressed interest in
developing a back-end based on SQL.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:37:00 2006