[core-workflow] Some questions

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sun May 8 20:54:03 EDT 2016


On 05/08/2016 05:43 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Émanuel Barry wrote:
>>
>> Take each X commit (say, every 100^th or 1000^th commit, or even
>> every commit if we decide to be insane^Wprecise), store hashes of
>> all files at that revision with possibly the file tree, in a .py
>> file as a list or dict, or json or anything you prefer. Then I
>> upload it for you to look at and you can compare with the mercurial
>> repo. Or we run the same script on the mercurial repo and compare
>> the resulting files.
>
> If we store anything externally, that could start limiting us.

I read that as generating a temp file from each tool (git and hg) and 
then comparing them -- not as storing those files.  (I could be wrong, 
though.)

--
~Ethan~


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