Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: cacherev policy script

[Miles Bader]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:48:58PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > In 'Archive Cached Revisons' from 
> > <URL: http://regexps.srparish.net/www/arch-tech.html>, 
> > it talks says an optimal cacherev policy would be "cached revisions such 
> > that the sum of the sizes of changesets between any two cached revisions 
> > is about the same as the size as the [...] cached revision."
> 
> > I'm just wondering if anyone has implemented a script to do this.
> 
> Assuming cachedrev are mostly used to speed up the "initial checkout", and
> assuming that initial checkouts are done in 99% of the cases on the latest
> revision, the optimal policy might be to have a single cacherev, placed near
> the latest revision.
> This assumes you have the backbuilder, of course.

It's very dependendent on other properties of the protocol though.

When I (too rarely) make emacs cacherevs, I'm very careful to place them a
fair number of revisions before the latest, because if I don't, someone using
my tree to do _updates_ can get a cacherev, which is extremely horrible in
the case of emacs.  This problem would go away if tla used smarter algorithm
to choose when to use cachrevs, of course... :-/

-Miles
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