Own VCS (Was: Official git export)

[Vadim Goncharov]

Hi Adrian Chadd! 

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:03:56 +0800; Adrian Chadd wrote about 'Re: Official git export':

>>> May be FreeBSD should really write it's own VCS, just as Git was
>>> modelled after proprietary BitKeeper?..
>>
>> Good luck getting agreement on what to model it on :)
> git but with some better tools for managing a tree as big as ours? :)
> (eg keep total branch database/metadata, but support sparse checkouts,
> some better git<->svn integration?)

No. Completely own BSD-licensed DVCS designed specifically for FreeBSD,
allowing partial checkouts and intended to replace SVN in the future :)

If you briefly know the git ot hg architecture, then you may notice that
"commit" references "tree", each subdir points to another "tree", so
that "tree" is like a directory on a FAT file system: file name directly
references file data. So only entire repository could be fetched.

If it will be designed like a Unix file systems, then an "inode" object
could be separate from "directory", and with a little help partial
checkouts are now possible (subset of inodes). Git also doesn't handle
renames natively, and with inodes it should be a trivial change in the
"directory" file, easily mergeable.

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