Use of database for SCM

[Matthieu Moy]

John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> As has been said, though, a db tends hide the information, versus a
> filesystem. Also, one very nice property of having plain files, is that
> they can be downloaded over http with no external help.

Also, mirroring/partial mirroring and incremental backup can be done
efficiently rather trivially with a filesystem backend. (I don't know
about bzr, but the "write once" paradigm of Arch is not far from the
optimal for an incrimental backup system)

-- 
Matthieu