Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

[William Uther]

On 23/02/2007, at 10:14 AM, Hugo Cornelis wrote:

> On 2/22/07, William Uther <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The problem is in detecting if a file has changed.  If you're using
> > compressed keywords in the database then manual expansion of those
> > keywords causes monotone to think the file has changed.  If you're
> > not using compressed keywords in the database then you can do some
>
> If there would be a hook that gets called before the SHAs get computed
> on the workspace, that hook could remove the keyword expansions (in a
> temporary file, obviously).  Doesn't that solve the problem ?  Or is
> there also a concern of performance for large workspaces ?

There is a performance issue.  There is also a security/consistency  
issue.  You want everyone on the same project using the same  
transforms for consistency.  But for security reasons you don't want  
those hooks being run from the working copy.

Java hooks that run in a sandbox anyone? :-D

Will        :-}