Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: big repositories inconveniences (partial pull?)

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> I have read the design-notes.txt of cvs2svn (which is a very good 
> documentation of their process, BTW) and came to the conclusion that we 
> cannot rely on the timestamp of the file revisions. Thus I began 
> implementing a file_id -> RCS revision number mapping. I've currently 
> just added a table to do this. Having that information stored durably 
> allows for a faster resync later on, I think.

I've just synced my changes to venge.net. Please be aware that the code 
currently is quite messy. The branch point detection code relies on the 
timestamp, which is surely wrong.

I'll try to clean it up somewhat as soon as possible.

Regarding RCS revision number: saving all RCS numbers of every file in a 
revision in a cert is fine, but I need to be able to get the number for 
a file_id. Is it okay to have a SQL table for that? What else would be 
feasible?

Regards

Markus