Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive-mirror not pushing cacherevs?

[James Blackwell]

In lists.arch.users, Dustin didn't write, but I think he said:
    [cachedrevs aren't really patches and thusly shouldn't be treated as
     such. Move them to a cache dir rather than keep them with historic tla
     data]


Yeah, they seem like a different animal to me too. 

But when I try and imagine how much work it would be to move cached revs
into their own dir..... well, I think it would be a big project that
would basically need a very, very wide consensus. 

Here's some things that could be problems if we moved cachedrevs

* older tla clients would loose sight of cachedrevs for newer tlas, which
  would basically suck rocks.

* if we used a single, seperate directory to hold cachedrevs, we could
  be looking at a directory with a lot of files. As usual, I'm imagining
  a linux project which could convievably have hundreds of cachedrevs

* If we had a seperate nested directory structure, then we're basically
  doing the same directory structure twice. That can't be very
  efficient. 



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