[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Best way to handle « large » binary f iles

[Miles Bader]

Matthieu Moy <address@hidden> writes:
> I would like  to tell Arch « OK  : Keep this file in  the archive, but
> forget about revision patch-1,  patch-2, patch-3, patch-5 and patch-6.
> Only base-0, patch-4 and patch-7 are important now ». 
> 
> I'm affraid I can't do that on a single file with Arch. 
> 
> Probably with a one-file archive, with a snapshot branch doing tags to
> the main  branch from time  to time, and  fast archive cycling  on the
> main branch, this would do it. 

I'd think you'd want to use real merging, not tagging:  do daily
development in a local archive (local so nobody makes any tags into it),
with period merging into the real archive.  When the local daily archive
gets too big, just make sure it's been merged, and then delete it, and
start a new local archive (tagged from the real archive).

[Or actually to make the namespace nicer, don't actually create a new
local archive, just a new (arch) version of that branch (again tagged
from the real archive, not the old version), and physically delete the
old version tree from the archive.]

That's how I'd do it anyway.

-Miles
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