On Thursday 11 of August 2011 18:15:09 ron minnich wrote: > Could we make little venti files and finally try to build an SCM using > these files?
Venti would make a great backend for Git. I believe Git's commit and tree format are simple enough to be re-implemented, if porting proves to be too bothersome. either the whole .git/ directory would be held in venti, or just the .git/objects/ -- the storage. ---- on the other hand, Git has that interesting feature that a bunch of recent commits is held in loose files, while older commits are re-packed into space- efficient format using deltas. was similar strategy ever considered for Venti? as in, to keep fresh data in present-day format, but migrate older data into denser format? -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] For example, if the first thing in the file is: <?kzy irefvba="1.0" rapbqvat="ebg13"?> an XML parser will recognize that the document is stored in the traditional ROT13 encoding. (( Joe English, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ))
