Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Matthieu Moy]

Cameron Patrick <address@hidden> writes:

> | > The archive format optimizes for access to early versions, not most
> | > recent ones as one would expect.
> | 
> | False. The archive format doesn't optimise for anything.
>
> Yes, of course it does.  I'd say it optimises for simplicity and
> robustness, myself.  Different ways of storing data can affect how
> efficient different access patterns are.  CVS and svn make getting the
> most recent revision O(1) whereas for tla it's O(n).

cached revisions are a good  solution to this, and Aaron's backbuilder
( http://sourcecontrol.net/~abentley/integration.php  ) will allow you
to patch backward from a cached revision as CVS does.

-- 
Matthieu