RFC: SvnQL

[Shlomi Fish <sh...@iglu.org.il>]

I just had a very nice idea, after adding 1 and 1 together. Now, SvnQL is SQL 
with a Subversion. It's not Subversion with an SQL backend, which is planned 
for future releases, but otherwise act on a non-subversion database.

Now what SvnQL does is implement an SQL database with an svn backend. As we 
can understand one can implement a simple database on top of a filesystem 
where directories are tables or indices, files are rows, etc. We can do it 
above Subversion too and then get a versioning (history, branching and 
tagging) for free.

Now what SvnQL will do would be to implement an entire SQL language on top of 
a Subversion filesystem or RA backend. Obviously this will require some work, 
but it sounds like a wickedly cool idea to me.

What do you think of it? Are any people working on implementing such a thing 
for Subversion or any other VCS?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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Re: RFC: SvnQL

[Molle Bestefich <mo...@gmail.com>]

Shlomi Fish wrote:
> What do you think of it?

Cute ;-).

Especially if it worked as a slave for various RDBMS systems OOTB.

That way you could plug it in to an existing database infrastructure
and use it to version select important (low-transaction-volume!)
databases.

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