From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e81fa53486a4934 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!feeder.news.orange.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4C53D0C1.4030105@obry.net> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:29:05 +0200 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: Karel Miklav Subject: Re: What is your preferred VCS? References: <24890919-000d-4b75-8556-0585e8a2f59d@g21g2000prn.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 2010 09:28:56 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.124.201.179 X-Trace: 1280561336 reader.news.orange.fr 10228 82.124.201.179:15273 X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12746 Date: 2010-07-31T09:28:56+02:00 List-Id: Karel, > deadlyhead wrote: >> For those who like Monotone: is using a "real database" really that >> much of advantage? > > Where the hell this meme still draws the power from? I have not seen a > real application with a bunch of files at its core for a long time and I > do not really believe you are not aware of advantages of database over > the filesystem. The whole quoted sentence is probably a blob inserted by > a benevolent humorous virus, so let's just take a laugh and move on. To me it really depends on the application. For sure database is lot more powerful in general. But in the case of a hierarchical data (like git does) the file system is really good too because it is a hierarchical database. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net - http://v2p.fr.eu.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B