Re: [PATCH 4/5] fast-export: Introduce --inline-blobs

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder writes:

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

quoted

The functionality to persist blobs that are refenced by
marks probably shouldn't be in svn-fe at all.

Do you mean svn-fi?

Yeah. Sorry about the typo. Just to make it clear:

svn-fi should only ever support inlined blobs. For older streams,
there's an extra overhead- it'll have to be chained along with a
helper program that transforms the stream to inline all the blobs.

quoted

This filter will need to persist every blob for the entire lifetime of
the program.

Depending on the interface, couldn't it be possible to rely on svn for
the content of blobs that have already been exported?  If so, one
would only need a place to stash (1) a mapping from mark numbers to
(svn rev, path) pairs and (2) the full text of blobs that have not
been exported as part of a rev yet.

Oh yes. We discussed this on IRC :) I'm just afraid that it won't be
fast enough- my idea is to essentially use `svnrdump dump` to replay
the blobs in a certain (path, revision); let me know if you think
there's a quicker way.

-- Ram