Re: getting the type of the repository

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>>The reason I was asking for such an API is that FSFS works well over
>>network shares and on Win95+ systems, but BDB does not. So I wanted to
>>give the user a warning if (s)he checks out a working copy via file:///
>>if it's a BDB and on a network share or BDB on Win95+.
>
>
> Algorithm:
>
> Look for 'repos/db/fs-type'.
> If it doesn't exist:
> it's a BDB repos.
> Else:
> read file contents to get type.

Thanks a lot. I'll do it that way!

Stefan

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Received on Fri Aug 13 17:12:49 2004