Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Google Summer of Code

[Aldrik KLEBER]

Le Jeudi 20 Avril 2006 19:11, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
> AFAICT, the patchlogs (in Arch) don't need pruning; they just need a bit of
> optimization:
>
> - drop the log comments, the dates, ... (tla can fetch them from the
> archive if needed; I don't know of any case where the speed to get them is
> on the critical path).
> - use fewer files.
> - reduce redundancy.  Either manually or via gzip.
> - maybe don't even include it in the working dirs, but only in the archives
>   (where you don't need one per revision but only one per branch or even
> one per archive).
>
> Not all of those are needed: as we'd seen, using a single patchlog file per
> branch and gzipping it already gives a factor 10 reduction in disk size;
> it's not clear that the rest is even needed.
>
>
>         Stefan

What you call a bit of optimization is a new archive format, a new working 
tree management, your optimizations describe a new product. IMHO


Aldrik

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