Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Inertia on lkml?

[Jason McCarty]

Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Dustin Sallings <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 18:58 US/Pacific, Miles Bader wrote:
> >
> >>  (1) Using individual files for explicit tags
> >
> >     This is a good point.  It seems like creating a single
> > inventory tag file per directory would help performance as well as
> > inode conservation.  It would make add, move, and delete more
> > complicated, of course, but more common operations wouldn't be any
> > more complicated.
> 
> Sheesh, if you're thinking about changing this, at least plan to do it
> the right way!  Explicit tag information ought to be stored all in one
> file, in {arch}.

Whether that is "the right way" is still controversial, and furthermore,
Miles' suggestion is an optimization only; it doesn't change any
semantics, whereas your suggestion does. Let's suppose all the explicit
tags are in {arch} and you've chosen to use tagline instead of explicit.
Then you'd move files with mv, and directories with tla move, which is
just the opposite of what you have to do now when using explicit
tagging. It would only be exchanging one inconsistency with another!

Jason