Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: results of mercurial user survey

[Thomas Keller]

Bruce Stephens schrieb:
> I'd want to see some estimates before I found that convincing, though.
> For example, we know it's going to be slower than the raw network
> speed because we're taking and sticking data into a database in little
> chunks.  For the initial pull, we could just copy the whole database,
> but then that suggests that it might not be the verification as such
> that's the problem as much as using the database in this way.

I don't think even an initial pull will be ever equal to a copy. What if 
the db already contains public key certs?

I'm for introducing a `mtn copy` command which indeed just copies one 
database to another, without any fancy security checking. This would 
also just overwrite all data in the target database and would probably 
be also useful for mirroring or "backups".

Thomas.