Re: [fossil-users] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-04-16 Thread Nico Williams
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Ben Pollack's essay at http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/ succinctly points up some of the problems with DVCS versus centralized VCS (like subversion). Much further discussion occurs

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-03 Thread Warren Young
I’m going to start two different reply forks: I’ll reply to the Pollack article here, then send another message later to chime in on your proposal, drh. On Mar 2, 2015, at 5:30 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Ben Pollack's essay at

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-03 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 2, 2015, at 5:30 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The key idea would be to relax the requirement that each client load the entire history of the project. Instead, a clone would only load a limited amount of history (a month, a year, perhaps even just the most recent check-in).

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Boehme
One question that arises is: how do I define what a server is? Can I get the complete repository history for everything else but get a more limited history for files that are larger than a certain size, or that have certain extensions? How would this work with sub-repositories (sorry, not versed

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Hipp
On 3/2/15, Richard Boehme rboe...@gmail.com wrote: One question that arises is: how do I define what a server is? Can I get the complete repository history for everything else but get a more limited history for files that are larger than a certain size, or that have certain extensions? That

[fossil-users] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Hipp
Ben Pollack's essay at http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/ succinctly points up some of the problems with DVCS versus centralized VCS (like subversion). Much further discussion occurs on the various news aggregator sites. So I was thinking, could Fossil

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-02 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 07:30:44AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: So I was thinking, could Fossil 2.0 be enhanced in ways to support scaling to the point where it works on really massive projects? I think the single biggest practical issue right now still goes back to the baseline manifests not

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Hipp
On 3/2/15, Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 07:30:44AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: So I was thinking, could Fossil 2.0 be enhanced in ways to support scaling to the point where it works on really massive projects? I think the single biggest practical

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-02 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:38:38AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: On 3/2/15, Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 07:30:44AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: So I was thinking, could Fossil 2.0 be enhanced in ways to support scaling to the point where it works on