Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: sqlite versus metakit

[David Brown]

On Tue, 10 May 2005 16:09:23 -0700, Bruce Stephens  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Stanislav Karchebny <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Did you people consider metakit as backend storage?
>
> Only graydon can answer that.
>
> > I highly doubt there's a need for such cruft as SQL queries parser for a
> > librarian (vcs).

The code still needs to do queries.  Writing SQL queries and having code  
parse them is a lot easier than using query primitives and building them  
up manually.  With pre-compiled queries, you don't even have the "cruft"  
of a query parser.

> I've no idea.  My guess would be that it wouldn't be worth it, but I
> could well be wrong.  The trendy thing to do would be to replace
> sqlite with git in some way, I suspect.  That might also be worth
> considering.

I think the primary benefit of git is how it searches and manages the file  
tree, not really how it stores the result.  Last I checked, git always  
stored full versions of each file, so that would make its repos grow a lot  
faster.

Dave