On Thursday 22 October 2009 17:07:20 Luke Kanies wrote: > My goal is not to have to have checked out the current revision of the > repository anywhere, but rather to rely entirely on direct API-like > access to the repository - creating blobs, storing them, and > retrieving them can all be done pretty easily without having a checked > out repository, and I think the branches can all be done similarly. > > The benefit of this is that you get considerable space savings - 10x > or so, because of file compression, but probably more in the end > because of a lack of duplication.
This is a really good point. I am actually a bit suprised as I thought git discouraged that kind of access as they didn't have a clean separated API. In any case I'm pretty confident this would be easy to do with bzrlib API as well. Really all I'm saying here is that when implementing this feature, if you treat git as implementation detail and wrap it's behaviour in something like a provider (which will need to be done to some degree anyways unless git provides ruby bindings, no?), then at some point some interested folk may look into implementing such provider based on another VCS ;) Obviously there's no point trying to capture differences between different systems from the start, that would be hard enough job to do in one go anyways. -- Michael Gliwinski Henderson Group Information Services 9-11 Hightown Avenue, Newtownabby, BT36 4RT Phone: 028 9034 3319 ********************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee and access to the email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients, any opinions or advice contained in this e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing client engagement leter or contract. If you have received this email in error please notify [email protected] John Henderson (Holdings) Ltd Registered office: 9 Hightown Avenue, Mallusk, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT36 4RT. Registered in Northern Ireland Registration Number NI010588 Vat No.: 814 6399 12 ********************************************************************************* --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
