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Re: RFC/Pull Request: Refs db backend

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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Jun 25, 2015, 01:08 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:49:20AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> I don't know how much that helps for the JGit situation. It punts the
> native code out of JGit, but people using JGit still have to have the
> native helper from git on their system.  I have no problems at all with
> pluggable $FANCY_DB that not everybody supports.  But I think we would
> want _some_ baseline that is reasonably performant, and that everybody
> will support. I'm not sure putting the index into a flat file is
> performant enough. Is there any basic key/value store that is has both a
> C and a pure-Java version (e.g., berkeley db)?

Berkeley DB has switched to the AGPLv3 for new versions. Besides being unpalatable for many people, it's also incompatible with the GPLv2. I do otherwise like Berkeley DB: it performs reasonably well and is available on most systems.

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  1. David TurnerJun 23, 2015
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2015
  3. Duy NguyenJun 23, 2015
  4. David TurnerJun 23, 2015
  5. David TurnerJun 23, 2015
  6. Jeff KingJun 23, 2015
  7. Duy NguyenJun 23, 2015
  8. Jeff KingJun 24, 2015
  9. David TurnerJun 23, 2015
  10. Jeff KingJun 24, 2015
  11. David TurnerJun 24, 2015
  12. Shawn PearceJun 24, 2015
  13. Jeff KingJun 24, 2015
  14. brian m. carlsonJun 25, 2015
  15. Duy NguyenJun 24, 2015
  16. Michael HaggertyJun 23, 2015
  17. David TurnerJun 23, 2015
  18. Michael HaggertyJun 23, 2015
  19. David TurnerJun 24, 2015
  20. David TurnerJun 23, 2015
  21. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2015
  22. Stefan BellerJun 23, 2015
  23. David TurnerJun 23, 2015
  24. Randall S. BeckerJun 23, 2015
  25. David TurnerJun 23, 2015
  26. Randall S. BeckerJun 23, 2015

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