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!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is your preferred VCS? References: <24890919-000d-4b75-8556-0585e8a2f59d@g21g2000prn.googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:28:02 -0400 Message-ID: <82mxt7u0vx.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lyV5Paavp+FnhJuT9/qzfZmvTEA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 9aa6f4c544101e029e66130860 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12755 Date: 2010-07-31T11:28:02-04:00 List-Id: deadlyhead writes: > For those who like Monotone: is using a "real database" really that > much of advantage? It gives high-level atomic transactions. Either you commit _all_ files, or you commit none. Others have talked about being able to do SQL queries. That's not as useful as it might seem; almost everything in the database is a gzipped blob, so it's not easy to search on. But some things are plain text (attributes, author names); doing SQL on those can be useful. Personally, I've only resorted to SQL when something was broken. I quickly fix the real bug in the monotone C++ code, so SQL is becoming less usefull over time :). > I'm a bit leery of such an opaque system being used to save my > patches. Having physical file-system access to changes makes _me_ feel > a bit more secure, and is something that I really like about GNU Arch. That is a point. However, you can in fact retrieve any file intact from the database via mtn automate commands. Once you trust that, the atomic transactions make it worth it. > Is it the speed that makes it good? Speed is very subjective. On most systems I use, for the workspaces I have, monotone is "fast enough"; it doesn't get in the way of my normal work flow. -- -- Stephe