so, I realised that because:

 * filedata was stipped down to just filename
 * the directory structure of files/filecontent stored member names
then:
 * all filedata was really doing is storing filetype
so, I decided to make filetype inherent of ID in a fairly elegant way

9 files changed, 27 insertions, 90 deletions

diff --git a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/commit.f.sh b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/commit.f.sh
index 726a7e3..17de155 100644
--- a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/commit.f.sh
+++ b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/commit.f.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ file="${1?"$usage"}"
 prefix="${2-f}"
 
 hash=`sha1sum $file | sed "s/ .*$//"`
-if [ ! -f "$REPO/@ID@/$hash" ]; then
+if [ ! -f "$REPO/@ID@/$prefix/$hash" ]; then
+	mkdir -p "$REPO/@ID@/$prefix"
 	install -m 644 -o $USER -g $USER -T "$file" "$REPO/@ID@/$prefix/$hash"
 fi
 echo "$prefix/$hash"
diff --git a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.d.sh b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.d.sh
index 1723d8a..1a001d3 100644
--- a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.d.sh
+++ b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.d.sh
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ ver=0.9
 
 #. "$LIBDIR/@ID@/stdio"
 
-# get.d ID DIRNAME
-id="$1"
-dir="$2"
+usage="usage: $RVS get.d DIRNAME ID"
+dir="${1?"$usage"}"
+ id="${2?"$usage"}"
 
 tmp=`mktemp`
-"$RVS" get.f "$id" "$tmp"
+"$RVS" get.f "$tmp" "$id"
 
 #install -d "$dir"
 mkdir -p "$dir"
@@ -32,13 +32,9 @@ mkdir -p "$dir"
 cd "$dir"
 rm -rf ./*
 while read line; do
-	# GNU bash optimized version
-		#hash=${line/#*:/}
-		#name=${line/%:${hash}/}
-	# POSIX version
-		hash=`echo "$line" | sed 's/^.*://'`
-		name=`echo "$line" | sed "s/:$hash$//"`
-	"$RVS" get "$hash" "$name"
+	  _id="`echo "$line" | sed 's/^.*://'`"
+	_name="`echo "$line" | sed 's@:'"$_id"'$@@'`"
+	"$RVS" get "$_name" "$_id"
 done < "$tmp"
 
 rm "$tmp"
diff --git a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.f.sh b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.f.sh
index c706931..b137911 100644
--- a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.f.sh
+++ b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.f.sh
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ ver=0.9
 
 #. "$LIBDIR/@ID@/stdio"
 
-# get.f ID FILENAME
-id="$1"
-file="$2"
+usage="usage: $RVS get.f FILENAME ID"
+name="${1?"$usage"}"
+  id="${2?"$usage"}"
 
-install -T "$REPO/@ID@/$id" "$file"
+install -T "$REPO/@ID@/$id" "$name"
 
diff --git a/rvs/plugins/filename/bin/get.sh b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.sh
index bc08063..d3f046c 100644
--- a/rvs/plugins/filename/bin/get.sh
+++ b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/get.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-name='rvs files get'
+name='rvs filecontent get'
 ver=0.9
 #  Copyright (C) 2009 Luke Shumaker
 #  
@@ -17,16 +17,16 @@ ver=0.9
 #  along with this program;  see the file COPYING.
 #  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
 
-# get ID
-usage="usage: $RVS get ID [FILENAME]"
-id="${1?"$usage"}"
+#. "$LIBDIR/@ID@/stdio"
+
+usage="usage: $RVS get FILENAME ID"
+name="${1?"$usage"}"
+  id="${2?"$usage"}"
 
 file="$REPO/@ID@/$id"
 
-    type="`sed -n 's/^type://p' "$file"`"
-name="${2-`sed -n 's/^name://p' "$file"`}"
-    hash="`sed -n 's/^hash://p' "$file"`"
+type="`echo $id | sed 's:/.*::'`"
+#hash="`echo $id | sed 's:.*/::'`"
 
-"$RVS" get.$type "$hash" "$name"
-rm "$tmp"
+"$RVS" "get.$type" "$name" "$id"
 
diff --git a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/gettype.sh b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/gettype.sh
index 4592ee7..84eb9da 100644
--- a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/gettype.sh
+++ b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/bin/gettype.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-name='rvs filecontent gettype'
+name='rvs @ID@ gettype'
 ver=0.9
 #  Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Luke Shumaker
 #  
@@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ usage="usage: $RVS gettype FILE"
 file=${1?"$usage"}
 
 if [ ! -e "$file" ]; then
-	error "file \`$file' does not exist";
+	fatal "file \`$file' does not exist";
 else
 	type=''
 	for check in "$ETCDIR/@ID@/"*; do
 		type=`"$check" "$file"`
 		if [ -n "$type" ]; then break; fi
 	done
-	if [ -z "$type" ]; then
+	if [ -n "$type" ]; then
 		echo "$type"
 	else
-		error "cannot handle file type of \`$file'"
+		fatal "cannot handle file type of \`$file'"
 	fi
 fi
 
diff --git a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/lib/stdio.sh b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/lib/stdio.sh
index ca4a86a..09d2ec7 100644
--- a/rvs/plugins/filecontent/lib/stdio.sh
+++ b/rvs/plugins/filecontent/lib/stdio.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-#name='rvs files stdio'
+#name='rvs @ID@ stdio'
 #ver=0.9
 #  Copyright (C) 2009 Luke Shumaker
 #  
diff --git a/rvs/plugins/filename/bin/commit.sh b/rvs/plugins/filename/bin/commit.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index f4fd0f0..0000000
--- a/rvs/plugins/filename/bin/commit.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-name='rvs filename commit'
-ver=0.9
-#  Copyright (C) 2009 Luke Shumaker
-#  
-#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-#  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-#  published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
-#  License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#  
-#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-#  General Public License for more details.
-#  
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with this program;  see the file COPYING.
-#  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
-
-file="${1-.}"
-string="`cat "$TMPDIR/commit/filecontent"`"
-type=`echo $string | sed 's/:.*$//'`
-hash=`echo $string | sed 's/^.://'`
-
-temp=`mktemp`
-echo "#rvs-filename-0.9" > "$temp"
-echo "name:$file" >> "$temp"
-echo "type:$type" >> "$temp"
-echo "hash:$hash" >> "$temp"
-
-meta=`sha1sum "$temp" | sed "s/ .*$//"`
-if [ ! -f "$REPO/@ID@/$hash" ]; then
-	install -m 644 -o $USER -g $USER -T "$temp" "$REPO/@ID@/$meta"
-fi
-echo "$meta"
-
diff --git a/rvs/plugins/filename/bin/init.sh b/rvs/plugins/filename/bin/init.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 71a2aa8..0000000
--- a/rvs/plugins/filename/bin/init.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-name='rvs generic init'
-ver=0.9
-#  Copyright (C) 2009 Luke Shumaker
-#  
-#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-#  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-#  published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
-#  License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#  
-#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-#  General Public License for more details.
-#  
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with this program;  see the file COPYING.
-#  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
-
-mkdir -p "$REPO/@ID@"
-
diff --git a/rvs/plugins/filename/info.mk.in b/rvs/plugins/filename/info.mk.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 3cd3a0d..0000000
--- a/rvs/plugins/filename/info.mk.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-name = filename
-ver = 0.9
-priority = 1