[Gnu-arch-users] Libraries and changesets

[Aaron Bentley]

I've just started using a greedy, sparse library, and quicky saw it was 
eating space like there was no tomorrow.

Has the possibility of storing changesets in the libraries been 
explored?  Star-merging my branch caused the library to double in size*, 
but committing the changes only increased my archive size by ~8k.   
Maybe what I (think I) want isn't exactly a library, but I don't want 
in-tree pristines either!

While I'm wishing, it would be nice if the head revision was the 
complete tree, not a changeset.  Since changesets work bidirectionally, 
you should be able to produce tla--devo--1.2--patch-43 by taking 
tla--devo--1.2--patch-46 and reverse-applying the changesets for 
patch-46, patch-45 and patch-44 to it.   This makes access to recent 
revisions faster than access to old revisions, instead of the other way 
around.

Aaron
*yes, I know that's almost the worst-case scenario.