Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] mtn to git conversion script

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2008, 13:29 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530809040629y2f2d9c74v311b83afebba0051@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200809041250.17715.thomas.moschny@gmx.de>

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> Ok, now the basics seem to be working. So I'm uploading some code if
>> anyone wants to take a look.
>>
>> The C code is generating a topologically sorted list of revisions, and
>> storing the relevant information (certs and parents) separately. This
>> code is very fast. It's using GLib and sqlite3, so probably the GLib
>> stuff should be converted to use libgit.
>> http://gist.github.com/8742
>
> You shouldn't access Monotone's sqlite database directly, for various reasons.
> Use the Automation Interface instead, see
> http://www.monotone.ca/docs/Automation.html#Automation. Using 'mtn automate
> stdio', you can feed an arbitrary amount of commands to one single running mtn
> process.

I use mtn stdio when needed, that is, when doing it manually would be too complicated (get_file). Doing it directly with sqlite3 is *very* fast, I don't see any reason to not to do it.

Feel free to modify the code for stdio.

-- 
Felipe Contreras