Description Alvaro Sanchez-Leon 2011-02-22 09:33:28 EST

Preserving a copy of the base and target review files included as part of a change under review, will greatly facilitate the support for reviews on many version control systems.
this will also significantly reduce the requirements on the reviewers work space. 
so it becomes feasible to perform the review without having the whole project mounted in the work space.

This can be achieved by having a local git repository, i.e. managed by jgit, this repository can initially be used to save the file versions under review, however it's use could later be extended to also store the review meta-data which shall be needed to support off line reviews.

In order to optimise the hard disk usage, we can use git packing format e.g. using command "git gc".

Note1: Jgit does not yet support "git gc", however is in the list of coming features. In the mean time a manual external c-installation of git can be used to pack the repository e.g. once per month.

Note2: Performing a review in a reviewer work space that does not match the work space of the review creator is not recommended since the navigation in Eclipse could lead to incorrect assumptions. R4E shall also implement a Validation check button were the user can see the differences with the required work space environment and adjust it accordingly.