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Re: [Monotone-devel] RFC/preview: automate interface for cvssync
From: |
Timothy Brownawell |
Subject: |
Re: [Monotone-devel] RFC/preview: automate interface for cvssync |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:37:58 -0500 |
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 15:36 +0200, Christof Petig wrote:
> ----- these commands attach information* to an already present revision
>
> automate put_sync_info REVISION DOMAIN DATA
> attach data to REVISION in DOMAIN
>
> automate get_sync_info REVISION DOMAIN
> retrieve data from REVISION in DOMAIN
>
> automate find_newest_sync DOMAIN [BRANCH]
> find the last changed sync node
[...]
> *) The information attachment is meant to be space efficient (xdiff
> encoded where possible) and uses both special files ".mtn-syn-*" and
> certificates where it has to attach information to an already present
> revision.
Why is there a need for this? It seems like it would be about the same
as having a XXXXXXX-metadata branch for the revision, except without
being able to use our existing merge infrastructure when people change
the metadata in different ways.
Tim
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