should be ok now (even if via ImmutableDict :-) )

This line of reasoning makes sense to me.

Yes please :-)

Should this also be removed from the "Permalinks" tab in the webapp ?

Re supported VCSs: sure, but I'd start with git that is a low-hanging fruit.

do we mean something else than echo swh:1:rev:$(git rev-parse HEAD) ?
Do we want support for other (supported) VCS?

This seems to have been addressed with the path qualifier in SWHIDs.
Closing.
(Please reopen if I'm missing something.)

As an update: a feature equivalent to this one has been implemented in swh-scanner by @DanSeraf.
I guess it would still be useful to have (as it seems like a natural need) also in swh-identify, but of course the code should not be duplicated.

Update: I just tried out my script to use Disarchive as an alternative to pristine-tar. It was pretty easy since they both work similarly (from the outside, ofc).

@samplet so it's an improvement over pristine-tar, great!

@lewo Great! The code is still “technical preview” quality, so there are some rough edges. Also, I’m willing to make architectural changes to better suit SWH. For instance, the whole “database” model might not be necessary if we want to store the metadata along with the files themselves. Feel free to ask for whatever help or changes you need! In the meantime, I will work on fixing some bugs and cleaning things up.

@samplet wow! that's pretty cool! Thank you ;)

i guess so, yes.

well, storage is typed now but some endpoints remains inconsistent (as T645#47156 explicits with a unification proposal which is not done yet, aside content_get_data and content_get_metadata)

I guess this task can be closed, since this backfilling process will be part of the one we will run soon to fill the new kafka cluster

what's missing for this task to be closed?

@rdicosmo the full ID is a better choice. Thanks!

I tried this as well, before trying pristine-tar. An issue I ran into is that storing the value of fields isn't enough, because there are multiple way to represent them in tar (eg. numbers are usually null-terminated strings, so \x00\x00\x00\x00, 0\x00\x00\x00, 0000, and \x00123 represent the same value).

Thank you @samplet for sharing this great work: I am really looking forward to see you and @vlorentz compare notes and see whether we can archive the three extra files you produce as extrinsic metadata in the SWH archive!

Hi all,

I started looking into this, using https://nix-community.github.io/nixpkgs-swh/sources-unstable.json as a source of archive files.

1. {object}_missing for object in {content, directory, revision, release, snapshot}

I'll type with what we have right now, that will simplify the next diffs which introduce type changes.
But also demonstrates the inconsistencies we have right now.