On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 15:48, Jon Trowbridge wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> That doesn't make WebDAV a bad protocol, but it might make this *specific*
>> use of WebDAV a sub-optimal choice for the specific server platform.
>
> Given the large number of round-tri
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> That doesn't make WebDAV a bad protocol, but it might make this *specific*
> use of WebDAV a sub-optimal choice for the specific server platform.
Given the large number of round-trips required to do anything, I'm
perfectly comfortable callin
On 01.04.2010 21:30, Greg Stein wrote:
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 15:12, Jon Trowbridge wrote:
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WebDAV introduces a huge amount of complexity, but as far as I can
tell it buys svn essentially nothing. The design of the protocol
We are able to mount svn repositories on desktops/tools/whatever
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 15:12, Jon Trowbridge wrote:
>...
> WebDAV introduces a huge amount of complexity, but as far as I can
> tell it buys svn essentially nothing. The design of the protocol
We are able to mount svn repositories on desktops/tools/whatever via
WebDAV. And when auto-versioning i
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 31.03.2010 21:20, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> - "WebDAV sucks. Period."
>> ...
>
> Out of curiosity: what's the relation to writing a Subversion FS backend?
It added a lot of friction to the development process.
Because of s
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 08:17, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 31.03.2010 21:20, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> - "WebDAV sucks. Period."
>> ...
>
> Out of curiosity: what's the relation to writing a Subversion FS backend?
It isn't really WebDAV, but more about HTTP, and it being a stateless
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:20:37 -0400
"C. Michael Pilato" wrote:
> For me, the biggest lessons to be learned here
> touch on over-engineering and under-testing.
As a mere user, who has tried to figure out where the bugs that
bit him are coming from (ie as someone who actually tried to
debug svn),
On 31.03.2010 21:20, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
...
- "WebDAV sucks. Period."
...
Out of curiosity: what's the relation to writing a Subversion FS backend?
Best regards, Julian
PS: and, of course, it's not true :-)
As many of you already know, Google recently announced that they had (again)
written a new filesystem backend for Subversion, built atop their BigTable
database system. As it turned out, Jon Trowbridge -- primary author of that
new backend -- was visiting the Google NYC office last week at the sam
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