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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch-log sizes
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Marco Zühlke |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch-log sizes |
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Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:55:19 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 16 December 2003 23:51, Tom Lord wrote:
> > From: Robert Collins <address@hidden>
> >
> > I just imported the automake CVS tree 's HEAD branch into arch (@
> > http://people.initd.org/automake).
> >
> > Without a pristine, the {arch} dir takes up 16M, and the project tree
> > including the {arch} dir takes up 25M.
> >
> > I suspect some users may find this disconcerting or worse.
>
> So, yes -- there are two issue here.
>
> One is:
[...]
>
> The other is log pruning. Do I understand that you've made a tree
> that carries around several years worth of patch log history? If that
> development had been done natively in arch, odds are that are along
> the way there would have been some discarding of old logs (perhaps
> stashing a ChangeLog of what's being discarded, for human readers).
> You might wnat your gateway program to emulate that.
>
> (Speaking of which, it's my plan to do some log pruning as I make the
> --2004 archives and start on the 1.2 line of arch.)
>
> -t
Is it essential to carry all the patch-log files in the {arch} tree?
For the history it would be much easier to consult a Changelog file (created
on the fly by tla) and for merging (replay, update, star-merge) it is (as far
as I know) only essential which patches are in and which not. So only the
full qualified name is required.
So the only thing {arch} would have to carry is a list of applied patches and
not all the patch-logs. If you want any information which is only in the
patch-log you could query the archive (or your mirror for reason of speed).
This is not a small change to tla but possible. It would it make even cheaper
to have many src-trees lying around.
Am I missing something fundamental ???
Then correct me.....
cu Marco
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch-log sizes, Dustin Sallings, 2003/12/16
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch-log sizes,
Marco Zühlke <=
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch-log sizes, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/17