[Python-Dev] Subversion

[Holger Krekel]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> On Sep 7, 2004, at 4:51 PM, Martin v. L?wis wrote:
> 
> >Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> >>(I'm really looking forward to Subversion 1.1; all the advantage of 
> >>Subversion, without the disadvantage of Berkeley DB...!)
> >
> >What *is* the disadvantage of Berkeley DB that the file storage of
> >svn 1.1 will remove? One of the things that you could do in CVS that
> >you can't easily do because of the DB approach is to ultimately
> >remove a file, along with its entire history (by removing the ,v file).
> >Along with that goes the option of moving part of a repository into
> >another repository.
> 
> The biggest complaint I've heard, and I believe the reason for the 
> optional alternative database implementation in 1.1,  is that the 
> Berkeley DB must be on a single local volume.

the primary reason was more to be able to have a local svn
repository on SMB or NFS network storage. 

Apparently there are a lot of commercial environments who used
cvs this way and the svn developers answered to this pressure
with the new "FSFS" backend. See 

    http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.1_releasenotes.html

for more info. 

cheers, 

    holger