[Monotone-devel] Re: Summit brainstorming

[Graydon Hoare]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> Check out git-cvsserver.pl, which exposes a read/write (!) interface
> to a git repo through the pserver protocol...
>
> It's not so horrible as it sounds because you get to use the sane,
> non-CVS model internally; the semantics are reasonably
> straightforward.  The painful part is implementing pserver, which is a
> protocol defined more by the quirky implementations you must
> interoperate with than by a solid spec.

You know, it's sort of sick but this could kill two birds with one 
stone. If we make a "--bind-cvs-pserver" option flag for "mtn serve" 
that multiplexes a pserver command interpreter into the usual sync 
stream, we'd have a cvs interoperability story *and* the ability to 
provide partial checkouts ("just use cvs").

I haven't read git-cvsserver.pl, but I'm imagining the semantics of 
checkin are just "pick a head and try appending the commit there, 
checking to see that all the files being committed are identical in the 
head, otherwise complaining"?

Heh, now that I think about it, that's pretty funny. I wonder if we 
ought to sit down at the sprint and try writing that, maybe cribbing 
code from git-cvsserver.pl.

-graydon