Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: patch: automatic remove the corrupt revlib revision

[Stefan Monnier]

Stefan> But IIUC rather than removing the revlib, it would be
Stefan> better to re-snap the inodes because the revlib hasn't
Stefan> actually been corrupted.  Right?

> It seems to me you'd have to be pretty tricky to save much over
> rebuilding the revlib, at least if you wanted to be sure.

Assuming you have a strong hash of the whole revision, re-snapping can be
done without accessing the archive, whereas rebuilding the revision would
require accessing the archive.  When the archive is remote, the difference
is enormous.


        Stefan