Re: Deterministic FSFS revision files

2012-07-31 Thread Stefan Fuhrmann
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Philip Martin wrote: > When writing an FSFS revision file some parts are written in hash order > and so with a recent APR the order is not predictable. Thus loading the > same dumpfile into two separate empty repositories produces different > revision files. The

Re: Deterministic FSFS revision files

2012-07-30 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:19 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 07/30/2012 12:47 PM, Philip Martin wrote: >> I'm considering changing the commit code so that hashes are written in a >> stable order and the revision files are repeatable. Does anyone think >> this would be a bad idea? > > I can't th

Re: Deterministic FSFS revision files

2012-07-30 Thread C. Michael Pilato
On 07/30/2012 12:47 PM, Philip Martin wrote: > I'm considering changing the commit code so that hashes are written in a > stable order and the revision files are repeatable. Does anyone think > this would be a bad idea? I can't think of any reason not to do this. The performance overhead will be