[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch caches

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>


    > >>   address@hidden/foo--bar--1.0--patch-53/full-tree.tar.gz

    > Say we used the above to represent cacherevs and imports.  We'd also want

    > address@hidden/foo--bar--1.0--patch-53/type

    > I'm thinking of a text file containing one of "import", "continuation" 
    > or "simple"

If you look up that name and it's not in the cache, that could result
in a call to to `arch_revision_type'.   It could also try to avoid 
the archive call by looking up:

    address@hidden/foo--bar--1.0--patch-53/log

and if that were found in the cache, inferring the type directly from
that.


-t