Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: situations where cached revisions are not so good

[Alexander Deruwe]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:11:20PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Stig Brautaset <address@hidden> writes:
> > There's an option to push-mirror to not mirror cached revisions, so you
> > can have the best of both worlds. :)
> 
> Actually, that doesn't help at all, it's an entirely orthogonal problem.
> 
> The problem I'm having has to do with whether using a cached revision is
> the best thing for a _user_ of an archive, which varies depending on the
> user's environment (plus details of the source tree involved), not the
> server's.

If that user mirrors your archive with --no-cache, she can decide for
herself where to place the cached revisions.  I think maybe that is what
Stig meant.  If that user just uses your archive, then yes, it doesn't
help.

Alexander