Hi, I'm stuck with yet another issue while trying to export a mtn repository, so I thought on sharing the list of issues: a) directory rename/deletes are indistinguishable from files This means directories must be tracked by the generator to find out if the operation is on a file, or a directory. If it's in a directory then the operation should be executed in all the files that are under that directory. It's possible to find out the whole tree of a revision, but it's a *very* expensive operation (takes about a second). b) file mode changes are just like any other operation (you don't get the mode at each revision) This means the file mode needs to be tracked all the time. Also, it means the file contents (blob) needs to be tracked because sometimes the only change in the file is the mode. Again, retrieving the whole tree is possible, but expensive. There are other issues, but not so important. For these two issues the only viable solution is to keep track of the whole tree of each revision. Does it makes sense to do that? Or would it make more sense to modify fast-import to allow more delta-oriented operations? -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
