[Zope-dev] simple revision control(?) for Data.fs.

[Chris McDonough]

How about exporting the root object as XML for inclusion in versioning? 
Awkward, yes.

Stuart 'Zen' Bishop wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> 
> > more to the point: will it allow me to say 'give me the data.fs file as
> > it was at 2000/01/05, 5am'[*] ? The code I've just about finished will
> > do this, and it also only stores deltas between files (unless the md5
> > changes, or the file shrinks, in which case it writes a full file).
> >
> > I also plan to support gzipping the data files in the repository. Once
> > this is done, I'll be running it 12-hourly here to allow us some recovery
> > to any cases of screwups.
> 
> A 'quick hack' method of doing this would be to ascii encode your
> data.fs (uuencode, base64 - anything as long as you have line feeds)
> and use RCS to handle all the deltas.
> 
> Or you could buy a Netapp and use the built-in snapshot facilities :-)
> 
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