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Re: Towards a native-FS-backed filesystem

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-03-30 21:54:35 CEST

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> writes:
> As an aside (not directed only at Greg): These little weekend code
> bombs might get folks all giddy for a few moments, but when the time
> comes to support that code, it generally means that exactly one person
> (Greg himself) has any idea what's going on there. This is not to the
> benefit of the development community. Ideas developed and committed
> piecemeal to the repository can be more easily digested over time by
> everyone -- we all get to see not just the final functionality, but
> the implementation decisions and steps, successes and failures, made
> along the way. There's a wealth of wisdom to be gained by keeping the
> process transparent in this way.

Agreed, but the new native fs backend is not a code bomb. Greg posted
a design, just like anyone would ask, and requested comments. (Maybe
the --deltas dumpfile thing was sort of a code bomb, but that's
smaller and more restricted than a whole new fs).

And to be fair, svnserve/ra_dav have proven to be maintainable by
others. It took a while for the rest of us to get up to speed, but
nowadays Greg is not a bottleneck there.

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