Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tag'ged (branched) and cacherev'ed archive dependency?

[Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel]

On Fri, Feb 20 2004 at 05:50:41AM BRT, Robin Farine <address@hidden> wrote:
> Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel wrote:
> 
> >        True, it doesn't mention history at all, but it raises the concern
> >of (possibly forever) unaccessible archives and the need to safeguard your
> >branch against it. Since history is an important component of a project, it
> >seems to me that not saving it (not even allowing to) is a serious
> >deficiency.
> >
> 
> If you really care about a foreign project/archive history, 
> then you can mirror the archive (what you should do in most 
> cases), so if the original creator decides to nuke it, you 
> do not lose anything.
> 
> It does not sound like a deficiency to me. Rather, you have 
> a choice to make (mirror or not mirror) instead of having no 
> one (e.g. with CVS).

        Well, ok, if, as I asked in another message, a mirror can behave
exactly like a "proper" archive, than that's fine, there's a way to
propagate a project's history to another location. Since you can
archive-mirror only one project out of the archive, this seems good enough.



                rbp
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