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

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > 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.

Just so.

I'll keep that in mind when I cycle to --2004a archives.

-t