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[Bug-gnu-arch] [bug #5157] library-add should not add preceding revision


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Subject: [Bug-gnu-arch] [bug #5157] library-add should not add preceding revisions
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:23:08 -0400
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=================== BUG #5157: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT ===================
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=5157&group_id=4899

Submitted by: miles                   Project: GNU arch -- a revision control 
system
Submitted on: Tue 09/09/2003 at 08:23
Category:  tla                        Severity:  5 - Major                  
Bug Group:  small feature idea        Resolution:  None                     
Status:  Open                         Release:  
address@hidden/tla--devo--1.1--patch-153
Fixed Release:                        Merge Request?:  None                 
Your Archive Name:                    Your Archive Location:                
Assigned to:  None                    

Summary:  library-add should not add preceding revisions

Original Submission:  Currently, the tla library-add subcommand recursively 
adds all preceding

revisions (until it hits a previously added library revision),

presumably depending on hard-link sharing of files to avoid excessive

disk-space consumption.



However in my experience, this doesn't work all that well in practice -- it

_does_ end up using large amounts of excessive disk-space for the preceding

revisions, and I've had to get into the habit of going back and manually

removing all the `extra' revisions it adds to get the space back.



For instance, with the sources for tla itself, which are fairly small:



 . Size of tla sources:  4.8MB



 . I had a previous library address@hidden/tla--devo--1.1--patch-127,

   and I did `tla library-add address@hidden/tla--devo--1.1--patch-153'.

   tla automatically added all the intervening revisions, for a total of 27

   revisions added.



 . The resulting increase in disk-space usage was 39.6MB, or about 1.5MB per

   revision added -- efficient per revision, but since a version can have

   hundreds of revisions, it adds up pretty quickly, especially for large

   source trees.



 . Removing all the intervening automatically-added revisions reclaimed about

   36MB, so the single revision I actually wanted took up 3.7MB (a bit

   smaller than the actual sources, presumably because it's sharing some

   space with the other revisions I added earlier).



Anyway, I think that library-add should add just the requested revision,

finding any previously added library revision, hard-link copying that tree,

and then updating the copy in-place until the desired revision is reached.



I think this is a also reasonable from a `least surprise' point of view too

-- it does exactly what the user requests, and uses resources accordingly.



If the `add all intervening revisions' behavior is desirable, it could be

requested explicitly, e.g. with an `--until' option.





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