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

[Mikhael Goikhman]

On 23 Nov 2005 09:58:35 -0800, Derek Zhou wrote:
> 
> Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> 
> > There is also "querying cacherev". With many network setups/protocols,
> > this operation is almost as slow as "downloading patch". The high time
> > tla spends to query hundreds of possible cacherevs always annoyed me.
> > Now, when there is an educated guess about potential cacherevs, some
> > futher optimizations are possible probably.
> 
> There is no seperate "querying cacherev" aside from querying the
> revision itself, because you have to do a listing in the archive. It is
> true that new algorithm my query more revisions than before though.

In fact, tla fetches checksum.cacherev file even if it is not in the
listing. Do you say, your patch fixes this annoying problem?

Regards,
Mikhael.