[Gnu-arch-users] Re: archive order?

[Stig Brautaset]

On Aug 23 2003, Maksim wrote:
> 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?

This issue have been raised a couple of times before, and I for one
have argued loudly against it on occasion:

        http://lists.fifthvision.net/pipermail/arch-users/2003-March/026331.html

> Does that make sense or do I have things backwards?

It does not make sense, IMHO. :)

Stig

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