Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers(SCM saga)

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Apr 12 2005 - 05:06:40 EST


Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/12/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> (iv) You fail to propose a better solution.
>
> I would feel safer with back end storage filenames based on email and
> mtime together with an optional hash lookup that turns collisions into
> worse performance. But that's just me.

Have a look at bazaar-ng (http://www.bazaar-ng.org/), they seem to do
this. I had a quick look at it and they also seem to store the full
files when they change (similar to git). It is also a bit ahead of git
(started earlier) and looks quite promising.

--
Catalin

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