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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get |
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Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:57:06 +0000 |
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:39:09PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > > It depends. If you have 50 small patches that fix typos or so, then
> > > on a large tree this is wastefull.
> >
> > Or even large changes that only touch half the files - the hardlinking
> > of revision libraries is *really* good most of the time, and cacherevs
> > have nothing similar.
>
> This is only theoretically correct. In reality, cacherevs are compressed,
> so they are usually more disk friendly then a hard-linked revlib.
I find reality to be roughly the opposite of this.
> Besides, a revlib consumes a _huge_ amount of inodes that constitutes a
> real problem in many cases (compared to one tarball per 50 revisions).
git already proved this is not a real problem.
> > We had this thread years ago, and to summarise:
> >
> > - you want revision library entries for people doing any kind of real
> > work with tla
>
> Disagree. Revision libraries although nice to have are not needed for
> real work with tla. Pristines and periodical cacherevs are often enough.
Pristines are *horrible*. Cacherevs are too slow.
> > - cacherevs are only really interesting to people who want to use
> > 'get'
>
> Cacherevs are helpful with merges not less than with 'get'.
Only with those 'merges' that involve 'get' operations. I mostly merge
using replay, where they're no use at all.
> greedy revlibs on
> every developer account is quite expensive, while cacherevs are not.
True enough. Also, computers are expensive, while noodles are not.
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- [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Derek Zhou, 2005/11/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Mikhael Goikhman, 2005/11/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Andrew Suffield, 2005/11/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/11/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Andrew Suffield, 2005/11/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Mikhael Goikhman, 2005/11/23
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Matthieu Moy, 2005/11/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get,
Andrew Suffield <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Matthew Hannigan, 2005/11/25
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Matthieu Moy, 2005/11/26
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get, Stefan Monnier, 2005/11/25