scaling of shared storage

[Aaron Bentley]

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Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:13:56 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>Jan Hudec wrote:
> Yes, makes sense. Is there a way to add a full-text into the knit now
> and then?

Yes, you can have annotated full-text revisions in knits, which is
intended to improve performance.

> Well, projects with tens of thousands of revisions would probably want
> to have an option to only carry revisions younger than something over to
> a branch. Darcs can do something like that.

Yes, but you would also want to keep a full archive somewhere.  If only
because some people are obsessive-compulsive.

>>>>I will happily make whatever changes are needed to
>>>>avoid actually creating / deleting the root directory.  (Though the way
>>>>branch creation works, I don't think we need to do that.  Probably we
>>>>just need to make it illegal to revert to -r 0)

>>>revert -r 0
>>>deletes the root... you get a new project when you add it again, but
>>>I think that's OK -- while the operation is legal, it's hardly sensible.
>>
>>I don't believe it is possible or desirable to delete the CWD.
> 
> 
> Delete in the sense remove from version control. Not physically, of
> course.

I was referring to suppressing the physical deletion/creation of the
tree root in the tree-modification code, not to the inventory operation.

Aaron
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