[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tag'ged (branched) and cacherev'ed archive dependency?

[Miles Bader]

Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
> Protecting against lack of backups is a purpose cacherevs do serve.  

Sure, but only `halfway' -- you can retrieve the sources and all the
patch-logs, but not the detailed changes.

This seems exactly right to me.

If you really, _really_ care about maintaining all the information in
an old archive, you should be careful to keep the old archive around in
some form (mirrored or whatever), but for most people, what cacherevs
give you is just about perfect.

-Miles
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