Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Why we might use subversion instead of arch.

[Aaron Bentley]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 06:27:47PM -0500, Miles Bader wrote:
> Note that cacherevs are not so nice if your source tree is very big, because
> tla's current approach is to always prefer the cacherev if present, which
> can be quite absurd if you've got a two-revs-earlier version in your revlib,
> and are using a dialup!
> 
> Someone was working on making tla's algorithm more optimal but I'm not sure
> what the state fo that is.

The current development of tla--backbuild--0 treats a cacherev as
"costing" 50 patches.  So cacherevs are only used if
1. there's no alternative
2. the alternative would require >50 patches.

50 was a number I arrived at by experimenting with tla--devo--1.2 and
address@hidden/tla--integration.  My connection is
1000/128 DSL.  Once we have file size data, we can do something smarter.

Unfortunately, the current code requires that only base-0 is a
continuation.

Aaron