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

[Aaron Bentley]

Tom Lord wrote:
> I guess I also left out there the issue of mirroring.  If you're
> working on the head revision, a mirror is very handy but a history of
> 11k past commits is usually not.

True.  But that's only because you're mirroring the entire package 
version.  I think a patch cache would serve your needs better than a 
local mirror.

That way, it could be (very) incomplete without interfering with your 
ability to retrieve new packages, or old revisions you never thought 
you'd care about.  Revlibs and backbuilding greatly reduce the need for 
cacherevs.

> A tactic that you might consider: use CVS or RCS or (least likely but
> possible) SVN to hold the annotate database.   The problem is reduced
> to plumbing and namespace mapping.

Another possible tactic: use Arch.  Tag the revisions to be annotated, 
(with --no-cacherev) and store the annotations in the patch-log of the 
tag revision.

Aaron