Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: designing how to kill pristine trees

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:06, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Robert> a cache and a library are different in goal, if not
>     Robert> implementation. I have some revisions that are very
>     Robert> expensive to rebuild.
> 
> You presumably did "tla add-library expensive-foo" for revision
> "expensive-foo", then.  Tag it as permanent somehow (I'm not familiar
> with library structure, so don't have an implementation), and require
> a --force option to "tla library-remove" for "permanent" revisions.
> Alternatively, create an internal "library-cache" command, and make
> 
> "library-add"    = "library-cache --permanent --add" (for cmd args)
> "library-add"    = "library-cache --add" (for non-cmd args)
> "library-remove" = "library-cache --force --delete"

Currently there is no metadata to examine for the library. Why add such
stuff to examine and review when it's not needed?

I don't see any downside to having a library and a cache: the cache can
link from the library after all.

Rob

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