Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGED: abentley-20]

[Aaron Bentley]

David Allouche wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 16:30 -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
>
> > I took patches 1,2 and 4
> >
> > They enable commit to use the project tree to determine the next 
> > revision, instead of the archive.  (Unless --force is specified)
>
>
> Pardon my laziness for not looking at the code, but what does that buy?

It makes the network traffic O(1).  People were noticing that commits 
got slower and slower with huge numbers of revisions.

> It is still necessary to compare the last revision according to the tree
> and according to the archive to fail on out-of-date trees.

Yes.  We check whether the revision we want to create already exists, 
but that's an O(1) operation.

Aaron