Re: fs dump/restore proposal

Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> >No, revisions numbers will never change. But the secret, internal
> >equivalent of inode-numbers will definitely change. No working copy
> > or human should be able to tell, however.
>
> What if you import a dump into a non-empty repository? (Sure, you have
> to know what you're doing, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility.)

What does that mean? That sounds horribly messy.

A dump represents some subset of a repository. I can't imagine what a
mess it would be to somehow "concatenate" N revisions from one
repository onto the end of another.

My (simple) vision was that a dumpfile was a snapshot of a repository,
and it can be used to recreate the repository. Once we start talking
about mixing-and-matching pieces of repositories, we're off in another
world of problems. And I'm not sure that world is important right
now...

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Received on Wed Apr 24 20:57:41 2002