Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Sub-optimal ordering of rev-building in star-merge

[Aaron Bentley]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> | Obviously, in this case the two steps should have been done in the
> | opposite order.  This was with tla-1.2
>
> No, you should have been using a greedy revision library, which solves
> this problem ;-)

A sparse greedy revlib won't solve this.  Only a non-sparse greedy 
revlib will.  And a non-sparse greedy "solves" it by keeping a copy of 
every revision between patch-60 and patch-142!

The other option currently available is to make a local mirror of the 
archive in advance.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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Panometrics, Inc.