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

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 01:52 +0200, Richard Levitte wrote:
> 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?

Partly that, and partly that it seemed suddenly more useful now that we
have multiple servers.

> 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 ;)

It's on mainline now, since I figured out the one test failure (a test
was committing to a db that had a server running on it, I have no idea
why that was working before now).


-- 
Timothy

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