Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Working out a branching scheme [was: tag --seal --fix]

[Aaron Bentley]

Mikhael Goikhman wrote:

> On 01 Apr 2004 15:42:10 -0600, Charles Duffy wrote:
>
> > "tla delta foo--release--0.7.0 foo--release--0.7.1 mypatch"
>
>
> After some consideration of different tagging schemes, this is what I
> ended up with.
>
> It looks a bit strange though to have a lot of branches with base-0 only
> revision. And tag is a pretty expensive operation for the large trees.
>
> I think, a "tla tag" option that disables cacherev may be useful to save
> disk space.

Two quick things:

1. The initial cacherev *only* happens when tagging across different 
archives  (rationale: doing this makes the target independent of the 
source archive)

2. There is an option to prevent that: --no-cacherev

Aaron