[Gnu-arch-users] Re: RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes

[Chris Gray]

On 6 Feb 2004, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 10:48, Chris Gray wrote:
>
>> My message was that skiplists are a data structure that you should
>> consider for reasons of efficiency, simplicity, and size.  I feel
>> they would be preferable to what we have now and easier to
>> implement than a truly smart server.
>
> They're cute and all, but while talking smart client, dumb server
> implementations, how do you propose maintaining signatures?

I hadn't thought of it at all.  However, committing a summary delta
should not be any different than committing a patchset, so the
signature maintenance should not be much harder.

Cheers,
Chris