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Directory handling #1

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remram44 opened this issue Sep 26, 2013 · 2 comments

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feature question

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remram44 commented Sep 26, 2013

Right now the system only stores files.

There are two options for storing directories:

Do the same thing we do for files, hash it recursively and copy it to filename objects/filehash
- Pros:
  - Easy
  - Keeps file structure (the user needs the system to obtain the path, but then he can access it in place)
- Cons:
  - File duplication is possible
Do something similar to git, making a tree object that references other tree or blob objects
- Pros:
  - No more duplication!
- Cons:
  - Need for a GC (this can be made efficient by putting the SQL database to use)
  - Need to process the files to turn it back into exploitable format
  - Harder

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remram44 commented Sep 26, 2013

Solution 1 implemented with 91aa4a7 (add_directory) and 2c84890 (remove())

remram44 closed this as completed

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remram44 commented Sep 26, 2013

Matthias mentioned that he needs the directories to be stored as is too.

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