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Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials
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Sebastian Spaeth |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials |
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Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:09:32 +0200 |
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:30:11PM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> I want to be able to determine how many branches exist, who created them,
> who maintains them, what the common usages are, who's using which, and
> typical code churn in each. I want to be able to determine code pedigrees
> at a glance, merge status at a glance, I want to be able to create a
> sandbox using bits from different branches and I want to be able to grep
> the heads of all branches for particular strings.
>
> How's that for a start?
Pretty demanding ? :-)
I'd say with a handfull of scripts in a scripting language of your choice you
should be able to get most of that information out of monotone (well, not the
sandboxing IMHO)
> Certainly, if I
> want them to do backups, I need to be able to tell them when the info on
> disk is stable and recoverable.
>
> The standard initial answer is simply to shut down the CSM and database,
> make them unavailable for a while, block access to the file system, sync
> it, then back it up. For small groups, this is usually acceptable as
I'm not sure I understand you here and I am not sure you understood esnyder
before. He proposed to set up a second monotone databse (either on the local or
a remote server) and synchronize regularly, e.g. all 5 minutes. That gives you
always a reliable backup database on a different file system. That "backup"
server you can easily shut down and copy to a tape (or whatever) at any point
in time without down times for the user.
spaetz
- Re: Trust in monotone (was Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials), (continued)
Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/04/19
[Monotone-devel] Re: newbie question - SHA1 vs serials, Bruce Stephens, 2005/04/20
Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials, eli . carter, 2005/04/20
Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials,
Sebastian Spaeth <=