Re: [Gnu-arch-users] library-add w/o ancestor checking?

[Aaron Bentley]

Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:45:16AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
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> > If it's empty why is it slow ??
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> Because apparently, that determination can only be done by fetching
> logs from the remote server.  

It's actually not logs, but other sources of ancestry data.

> Every single one.  Not to mention all
> the GPG signatures.

See, although foo--bar--0--patch-20's ancestor is usually 
foo--bar--0--patch-19, it doesn't *have* to be.  It could very well be 
tla--devo--1.3, or tlacontrib--devo--1.2, or anything else, because it's 
possible to tag into any version you like.  Not that I'm encouraging that.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
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