Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: in-tree pristines fatally wounded (merge-fest etc)

[David Allouche]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:07:15AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> there is a trivial heuristic:
> if any file in a revision's sources in a library has a link count of 1,
> then that revision hasn't been checked out. (modulo the slow rot that
> occurs from update and replay breaking links).

Unless of course the next revision is only renames, has zero change
(e.g. a version-0 revision) or is a continuation (i.e. a base-0). But
this might be considered a negligible space overhead.

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