Combining/sharing the blob-store and the metadata that defines it is
the biggest one. But we could potentially share all data about the
BASE tree. If the same node <uuid, path, rev> occurs in multiple
working copies, then information about the text and props can be
shared.
I believe and agree with you that there is little benefit in putting
all the WORKING trees into one database, beyond the small advantage of
opening a single database.
Cheers,
-g
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:07 AM, David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent+svn_at_vinc17.org> wrote:
>>> On 2008-09-15 05:17:25 -0700, Greg Stein wrote:
>>>> If it is renamed, then you've just "lost" your metadata. The metadata
>>>> is tied to an absolute path.
>>>
>>> An absolute path? This would be annoying because the path to my NFS
>>> home depends on the machine from which I have access.
>>
>> If there are no .svn directories in your working copy, then it looks
>> like any other directory. The only way for svn to know it's a working
>> copy is to hold a reference to its absolute path.
>>
>> That said, we've also been discussing how to drop a unique identify
>> into (say) .svn/wc-id at the root of your working copy. There are some
>> potential issues with that, however. When svn sees the working copy at
>> a new path, it won't necessarily know if it was simply moved or
>> copied, and (thus) how to handle the metadata that it has recorded for
>> that working copy.
>>
>> In your situation, you'd simply want to keep the metadata in the
>> wcroot, rather than a centralized location. If all the data is in
>> wcroot/.svn/, then svn will not worry about the absolute path at all.
>
> As this thread has gone on, I think I've lost track of the motivation
> for centralizing the metadata beyond just the working copy root. I
> understand wanting to be able to (optionally) centralize and share the
> blob-store (since file contents/etc are likely to be shared between
> multiple working copies), but what is the gain of combining the actual
> working copy metadata itself? (More than "you can control where it
> sits", which you can also do by replacing the .svn directory with a
> symlink.)
>
> --dave
>
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> David Glasser | glasser@davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
>
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