The root of the pristine filesystem is given in the first line of _darcs/hashed_inventory, as in
pristine:0000001784-1b45f96045046846a02137385b25df2e3ac735c6e19ba65a00aba6ba66f848fe Starting with inventory: 0000008284-f34423512b5b13640827e81e07a4a91aa366995d9f2796cf73f0c7b6e094be28 [TAG 2.1.0 Then you just look at the file pristine.hashed/0000001784-1b45f96045046846a02137385b25df2e3ac735c6e19ba65a00aba6ba66f848fe which is probably gzipped, and it has contents such as: file: hpc.README 0000001139-9b29de9930f2e19ab1ef4042919a34c24dfc44bc544ef6fc9c1b20a2d0b6bf32 directory: bugs 0000001653-efca287626998ea81d76c0a2250e7a1f6be37a29afd85d1ddd8f2b100c95bcbe directory: release 0000000390-d265817495a1974563c92912ca4a688aab87e10517ed6750efd7f02b9e49f1c3 directory: tools 0000000878-abaa89d56184b13152b49cd23abea111cb7c4fd21100516991a9a28257df8e38 which I think is pretty much self-explanatory. The timestamp associated with each file is just the timestamp of the file in pristine.hashed that contains its contents. David On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Grant Husbands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How feasible would it be for Darcs 2 to store a > filename->(hash,timestamp) mapping in a text file somewhere in the > _darcs folder? It would be very useful for TortoiseDarcs. > > We're willing to do the necessary work, but we would really appreciate > some hints as to where's best to insert the necessary code and whether > it's a good idea and would be accepted. > > Background: > We want to make TortoiseDarcs (the Windows Explorer darcs interface) > work with Darcs 2 Hashed-format repos. This might sound familiar, as we > aren't the first to ask questions in this area. > > Now, the current TortoiseDarcs supports the darcs 1 pristine cache, > which has the advantage that we can trivially find the pristine copy of > a file and can compare the modified time of it to the modified time of > the associated file, to know whether a file might have changed. > > If it's at all possible, we want to avoid spawning a copy of Darcs each > time we want a file-listing in Explorer, which is why it would be ideal > for darcs to maintain the information in an easily-accessible file. The > timestamp is so that TortoiseDarcs can compare that to the modification > time of the file in the working directory and avoid having TortoiseDarcs > read all of the files just to find out whether they're likely to have > changed. > > Is there a better way? _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
