Re: [Monotone-devel] Server-initiated sync (or push or pull)

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:33:04 -0500, Timothy 
Brownawell <address@hidden> said:

tbrownaw> There's a new branch net.venge.monotone.server-initiated-sync which 
adds
tbrownaw> a new lua function that can be called from hooks.
tbrownaw> 
tbrownaw> server_request_sync(what, address, include, exclude)
tbrownaw> 
tbrownaw> "what" is either "sync", "pull", or "push" (or anything
tbrownaw> else, which is currently treated as "sync"). This adds a
tbrownaw> request to a queue that is read by the server event loop,
tbrownaw> and tells the server to start a connection to some other
tbrownaw> server.

Wow, exactly the kind of function I've wished for lately!  Was it my
moaning on irc a couple of days ago that inspired this?

tbrownaw> If you call this from the netsync notification hooks
tbrownaw> (probably the best place to call it from), note that it is
tbrownaw> very easy to start an infinite loop, unless you make sure it
tbrownaw> doesn't trigger on connections to/from whatever other
tbrownaw> servers it starts connections to.

Interesting...  I'll have to give it a good try ;)

Cheers,
Richard

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