Could bzr push to Amazon's S3?
casret
casret at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 22:51:27 GMT 2007
On Dec 20, 2007 8:59 PM, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> > Since bzr can use flat files, is there any reason S3 couldn't be used as
> > repository?
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> Apparently, S3 doesn't have atomic rename
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> See this:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/18912
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> But I don't think we actually need atomic rename. We do need a
> guarantee that renaming a directory over top of an existing directory
> with contents will fail.
There is no renaming operation, nor are there directories in S3. There are
just keys and data. Many applications use the / as a delimiter, and the S3
API supports querying using a delimiter to roll up common prefixes, but it's
not really a directory.
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