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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: patch-log sizes


From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: patch-log sizes
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:14:10 -0800 (PST)

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > This is not an issue.  As I envision it, the operation of adding
    > new patch-logs to a `old bundle' will be _extremely_ infrequent
    > (maybe something you do once every six months), so it's
    > perfectly fine to just unpack the old bundle, and repack a new
    > one containing the new files.

Do you feel like (loosely) specing the commands in the form of writing
their help messages?

I'm thinking something like:

  ~ tla compress-logs [-u] [namespace-region]

  ~ tla compressed-logs
    [output: list of compressed namespace regions]


Perhaps also in the various places where libarch/patch-logs.c uses
safe_access to check for the existence of some part of a log, that can
be abstracted to log_access which does the same thing but additionally
prints a warning (perhaps even auto-uncompresses?) if the region of
the patch log in question is missing but is or might be there among
the compressed logs.

Too minimal?

Certainly not too minimal but maybe worth considering anyway (:-): if
auto-uncompression happens, perhaps it should take note of having been
done so that such logs can be auto-recompressed before `commit'.

-t





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