Use of database for SCM

[tnorth at bluewin.ch]

>> I was just wondering why nobody (as far as I know) uses a database like
>> SQLite to stock patches and/or patches informations.
>
>Subversion uses an in-process database as its backend. Although recently
>a 
>file-based backend has been developed and seems to be quite popular.
>
>The DB backend is known to cause some problems, with databases sometimes
>
>getting corrupted and otherwise in a funny state.
>
>Good discussion here: 
>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05.html#svn-ch-5-sect-1.3.1

Ok thanks.


>> I know the use of a DB would certainly bring more complications, but what
>> about speed ? (is maybe the only profit we could have)
>> SQLite seems to be very very quick...
>
>Where are your benchmarks? :D The only example I'm aware of is Subversion
>with 
>bdb and that is *not* very fast.

I mentionned SQLite alone ... i never had a look at subversion, which dies
with a segfault at home, so I cannot compare it with bzr :)
I don`t mean bzr is slow :D and if I use it know it is because darcs was
too slow for me (well... if it is politically correct here, else just read
"unappropriated for my use")

Regards,
TNorth