* Richard Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061025 16:17]: > Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote: > >* Richard Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061025 14:36]: > >>Bill Shannon wrote: > >>>>Rich tried this and I futzed with it a little bit; we tried using > >>>>encode/decode filters - but I believe it would slow down pulls/clones > >>>>incredibly as it would have to transform each and every single file on a > >>>>pull/clone/push. I think Rich expressed this same concern. > >>>If you use the RCS keyword approach I think you only pay when you > >>>do a commit. > >On commit (low overhead) and on update/checkout, but definitely not > >on pull/clone/push. > > I was under the impression the update hook ran when populating the workspace > during clone, also.
Sorry, of course (unless you use 'clone -U'). > >The decode/encode filters should be the right place for this, though > >I don't know for sure if Mercurial provides them with all needed > >information yet (i.e. the current changeset hash). > > A quick glance suggests we don't even get the filename being filtered, just a > raw input stream. This might really be the case, but I'd have to look at that, too. > >You can circumvent performance problems by using a python extension > >instead of shell skripts with decode/encode. Look at > >hgext/win32text.py and contrib/win32/mercurial.ini for examples. > > I see in-process python hooks, but not filters. Are these more recent than > 0.9.1 or am I missing > something? Yes, in-process python, but they are really encode/decode filters. > >Currently decode/encode has the problem that you can only use one > >filter and not combine e.g. CR/LF conversion, gzip compressed > >working files and keyword expansion without creating a > >one-size-fits-all filter. > > The other issue in this area would be getting the hook/filter to each and > every child workspace, > since such things don't propagate on clone. Currently we're evaluating a way to specify marking certain hgrc settings as trusted. Maybe this can be extended in the future to allow certain encode/decode filters to be enabled via a distributed .hgrc file in the repository? Thomas -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://intevation.de/~thomas/ _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
