[Gnu-arch-users] Re: situations where cached revisions are not so good

[Stig Brautaset]

On Sep 24 2003, Miles wrote:
> Stig Brautaset <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Someone recently asked me to add a cached revision for my emacs archive,
> > > which according to the conventional wisdom would make sense, since
> > > there's quite a few changesets in there.
> > 
> > There's an option to push-mirror to not mirror cached revisions, so you
> > can have the best of both worlds. :)
> 
> Actually, that doesn't help at all, it's an entirely orthogonal problem.
> 
> The problem I'm having has to do with whether using a cached revision is
> the best thing for a _user_ of an archive, which varies depending on the
> user's environment (plus details of the source tree involved), not the
> server's.

I fail to see why --no-cache is orthogonal to your problem. If people
are on a slow line and need to get to your stuff often (or even
occasionally) they should run their own mirror. Thus you can put cached
revisions in _your_ mirror, but people are free to only mirror the
cached revisions if they want to.


Stig
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