Re: [Monotone-devel] cvs_import rewrite

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:14:35AM +0100, Christof Petig wrote:
> Problem: cvs_import would need to know how to reach the imported
> repository for correct certificates (at the moment cvssync stores the
> revision information per repository).

Off the cuff thought: CVS repositories don't have unique names anyway.
Would it make more sense for cvssync to store a nickname for the repo,
and then at cvs_{push,pull} time one can figure out the mapping from
nickname to an actual access method?

This mapping could be cached in a db var, similar to the default
netsync server stuff.

The nickname could have a simple default, so that if one only ever
uses a single cvs server for a branch family (as is by far the more
common case), then one never needs to specify a nickname, or even know
that the nickname exists.

-- Nathaniel

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