On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Listman <listman_at_burble.net> wrote:
>
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 4:50 PM- Oct 24, 2008, Blair Zajac wrote:
>
>> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>>
>>> I have no thread handy, but it's been discussed over and over in the
>>> wc-ng design as an 'eventual feature' to be implemented. It's
>>> basically imitating perforce: the entire working copy is read-only.
>>> When you want to edit a file, you run 'svn edit file', which makes the
>>> file read-write and registers this fact in sqlite. Then, when you run
>>> 'svn status', 'svn diff', 'svn commit', etc. there's no need to crawl
>>> the tree trying to discover local edits; you just ask the database
>>> which files to stat. It makes things shockingly fast, and while it
>>> sounds horribly annoying and restrictive to a veteran CVS or SVN user,
>>> it's actually a really nice way to work.
>>
>> Have we decided that this is something we really want? It does sound very
>> annoying and restrictive.
>>
>> With the speed of the new working coy code, shouldn't we wait to see how
>> fast that is before even introducing 'svn edit'?
>>
>> Are there any other open-source version control systems that use the
>> read-only model? Isn't the reason 'p4 edit' is needed is to indicate to the
>> server the intentions to edit the file, which svn doesn't need?
>>
>
> this going to be optional, if you don't need/want it then you can ignore.
>
Right. Every three months we seem to repeat this thread. :-)
X: "How can we make the wc stop crawling huge trees?"
Y: "Wc rewrite is happening. There will be less crawling. And we
can add 'svn edit' eventually too."
X: "How does that work?"
Y: "It works like perforce. Thousands of perforce users love it."
X: "It sounds awful, I don't want that!"
Y: "It's always been planned as *optional* feature, just like changelists are."
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Received on 2008-10-25 04:26:13 CEST