Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular

[Miles Bader]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:28:28PM +0100, David Allouche wrote:
> The conclusion was:
> 
>   Metadata is to be stored in a special "archive-metadata" category.
>   This fixes mirroring and atomicity issues and preserve compatibility.
> 
> I hinted toward this solution earlier in the thread. It has a number of
> nice properties, like preserving good performance with abrowse and the
> like if the last revision is cached. But then we hit the "mirror update
> of cachedrevs" issue; ironically, that is an issue which can be fixed
> with the archive-metada category.
> 
> The main problem with that approach is that it would require a new
> internal support infrastructure which is not present yet.

I'm not really sure what you're referring too -- are you suggesting that for
every operation that wants to look at some meta-data (which is quite a few at
least for the functionality I'm talking about), tla _check out a branch_?
That seems, um, absurd (absurdly slow, anyway)...

-Miles
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