Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: archive storage format comments on the size

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Andrea Arcangeli <address@hidden>

    Miles:
    >> Cached revisions don't work very well with extremely large source trees.

    > yes, the major problem is that they don't cache locally the granular
    > patchsets in the local machine. 

    > You lose information locally, if you fetch from the cacherev. 

Nonsense.  

Read the thread "situations where cached revisions are not so good"
and learn about the archive-mirror command to catch up.


    > and the primary repository will grow not shrink
    > with the cacherev creation.

That's right.   That's half of what they're for.

-t