[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Archives vs. categories vs. versions

[John A Meinel]

Miles Bader wrote:
> John A Meinel <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > As far as I know, it is solely for performance. The problem is that
> > after you get 200+ revisions into a single version, you start noticing
> > that some of the algorithms are O(N) (example, checking to see if you
> > have an old revision in your library when the lib is empty causes a
> > round trip for each revision, Cycling your archive breaks this check).
>
>
> Hmmm, my emacs branch just hit 700 revisions (in this archive), and I
> have no obvious problems in daily usage -- and I access it remotely over
> a slow link!  However the "tag" command does seem to have some
> bogosities with many revisions.
>
> Anyway, even if this is a problem, I think bumping the version is pretty
> much equivalent to changing your archive in this respect
>
> -Miles

Change your revision library to an empty greedy sparse one, and then do 
a get. Even if there are cacherevs, it will scan for a long time looking 
to see if your revlib has an older version.

This may not affect *you're* day-to-day work, but trying to get stuff to 
work on win32/cygwin my revlibs need to be cleaned out periodically. If 
I was in a more stable situation I probably wouldn't have as many 
problems, though.

John
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