On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 19:28, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Bryce Schober <bryceman@dpzone.com> writes:
>
> > I've been snooping around here a while, I'm a current cvsnt
> > user/admin. I like the looks of subversion, and I haven't actually
> > tried the gui clients yet, but one of our favorite features of wincvs
> > around here is the history graph.
>
> This graph would be nearly impossible to produce in Subversion. The
> WinCVS graph, IIRC, shows every version of a file, and a list of every
> tag or branch that each version is part of. It's basically a visual
> representation of the RCS file format.
>
> Subversion indexes data "the other way". The only way to discover all
> the tags/branches that a specific version of a file lives in ... is by
> brute-force searching. This is a side effect of global revisions and
> all the node-sharing between revision trees. The trade-off, of
> course, is constant-time creation of tags and branches.
To state the obvious: how hard would it be to write a program that reads
the svn dump files and build the indexes "the RCS way"? That would seem
the obvious approach to do this.
Thanks,
Kirby
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