[Gnu-arch-users] archive order?

[Maksim Lin]

From my understanding, the archive keeps the base "prisitine" source 
version and then just accumalates changesets as tgz files and if I do a 
get of the latest 'head' revision, it will fetch the base source then 
apply all the patches it has over the top to get me the latest revsion 
in my working dir.
My question is: since most of the time you actually want the latest 
revision and then sometime (less often) you want to grab some older 
historical revision, why doesn't the archive actually keep an up to date 
(ie latest revsion) copy of the src and then just apply the changesets 
"backwards" to get older revisions?
Does that make sense or do I have things backwards?

Maks.