RE: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get

[Derek Zhou]

Andrew Suffield wrote:

> We had this thread years ago, and to summarise:
> 
>  - you want revision library entries for people doing any kind of real
>    work with tla
Agreed. 
> 
>  - cacherevs are only really interesting to people who want to use
>    'get', and the pattern of revisions which people want to get can
>    only be predicted by the people managing the project - it's most
>    likely related to your release schedule, not the number of
>    changesets
Cacherev can also help building and rebuilding the revlib. Rebuilding
revlib is not too uncommon:
- to free up disk space for other stuff;
- to use a machine that shared NFS home but not any local storage
- in the case of using /tmp or /var/tmp, got reaped or rebooted. 
With automatic cacherev (large number for large tree, small number for
small tree), the people that manage the project has one less thing in
mind.

Derek