Porch Repositories

low level explination of Porch Repositories

Git vs OCI

PORCH SUPPORTS THE CONCEPT OF MULTIPLE REPOS OCI IS EXPERIMENTAL. AN EXERNAL REPO IS AN IMPLEMENTATION OF PORCH REPOSTIORY INTERFACE WHICH STORES PKG REVISION ON AN EXTERNAL SYSTEM. TODAY THERE ARE 2 EXTERNAL REPO IMPLEMENTATIONS. THEY ARE GIT(FULLY SUPPORTED) & OCI(EXPERIMENTALLY). DEVELOPERS ARE FREE TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT NEW EXTERNAL REPOS TYPES IF THEY WISH E.G. DB INTERFACE (git is the main supported one oci is experimental.)