Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: How new-style codeville merge works

[Nathan Myers]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:29:17PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Yes, a weave (SCCS's storage format) turns out to be remarkably
> > well-suited to this.
> 
> It would, however, be silly to clone SCCS's storage format exactly.

Of course that's not an issue for monotone, but it makes Bitmover
look pretty silly.

>  I think it would be
> possible to make it append-only too, but that would probably hurt
> checkout performance.

... unless it started with the file position of the start of (the
rest of the) metadata, or with just the fixed-size part of the 
metadata, or with just the metadata that was already known the 
last time the file had to be rewritten from the beginning, and
the rest appended incrementally.  

Nathan Myers
address@hidden