Re: [Social-mediagoblin] Tahoe-LAFS as a document-oriented database

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Deborah Nicholson <address@hidden> writes:

> Several free software versioning systems already exist, so it seems
> like there really ought to be an example out there where someone has
> made it play nicely with a database, right? (sadly I don't have any
> idea what that example might be) If we can take an existing version
> control system and massage it in, it might not be too much extra work
> to include. Or at least leave the door open for later if we have an
> idea of what system we'd want to add when we get there. Feel free to
> tell me why this wouldn't work. :)

If VCS stuff gets introduced, it'll be far in the future, and probably
as a plugin.

I do have ideas on how to support multiple "revisions" of things.  I'll
try to write that up soon when I put in, but I'm thinking it'll be more
of keeping the old file, adding a new file, and just keeping annotations
in the database about which ones are which so we can show that to users.

If people want a VCS, there are already a lot of tools that handle that
better than we would currently.

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