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

[Miles Bader]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> > with a mirror, I either had to remember to use a very specific limit
> > for the mirroring command (and worry about what it should be -- it
> > depends on what changed), but the direct connection basically
> > transfers exactly what I need.
> 
> That's my bad.  Mostly, you really should want all the changes in my
> archive.  I shouldn't have thrown scm--devo in that archive though.

Consider the (common) case when you're using several branches to manage
your changes -- I probably want just the `final' changes in
tla--devo--1.1 or whatever, but if I mirror everything, I'll get
basically the same changes on several branches.

-Miles
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