[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Storage efficiency of revlibs

[Stefan Monnier]

> In reality, my source-only trees (containing normal {arch}, no pristines)
> produce tarball that is 10% of the "du -s tree". So for my projects, the
> tarball ratio is 10, and the revlib ratio is 2.5. Then the "cacherev
> every 50 revisions" solution is 200 times more compact than revlib.

But that's only comparable if the local archive is as transparent to use as
the revlib.  Currently it's pretty far from it.


        Stefan