Use of database for SCM

[Matthieu Moy]

tnorth at bluewin.ch writes:

> I was just wondering why nobody (as far as I know) uses a database like SQLite
> to stock patches and/or patches informations.

You mean "nobody except subversion" ;-)

The advantage is that it can be efficient (GNU arch, on the other
hand, sometimes abuses the filesystem as a database in a very
inefficient way - Look at the disk used by your patch-log and the
actual size of it on an ext3 filesystem), but the main reason why many
people dislike it is I think that it makes it hard to identify a
problem in case of failure. Even Subversion has developed a filesystem
backend to avoid forcing people to use a DB backend.

-- 
Matthieu