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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:24:32 -0500
From: John Meinel <tla@johnmeinel.com>
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To: Aaron Bentley <abentley@panoramicfeedback.com>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Revision Library Directory
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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> John Meinel wrote:
> 
>> Also, you should be aware of the tlacontrib script "shrink-library". 
>> By default it removes entries in your library that haven't been 
>> accessed within 2 weeks, and always leaves the latest version. I tend 
>> to run "shrink-library 0" which shrinks everything but the latest.
> 
> 
> Unless you're using my backbuilder, too-agressive library pruning will 
> force you to download cachedrevs to produce old revisions (e.g. when 
> merging).  Compared with producing revisions from library revisions, 
> this is usually slower, and it takes more space because you don't take 
> advantage of the hard-linking optimization.
> 
> Someone should write a script that keeps the *oldest* revision as well 
> as the *newest* revision.
> 
> Not me, I've got the backbuilder :-)
> 
> Aaron

So what is delaying the backbuilder? Was it all of the discussion about 
deltas instead of cacherevs, etc? Why can't the backbuilder be rolled 
into tla mainstream, and then improved when we figure out the whole 
delta situation?

Not that I terribly care though. It may perform slower now and again, 
but I've got a decently fat pipe (and when I'm merging, I either run on 
the machine with the archive, or one with a 100Mb LAN connection, no big 
problem there.)

John
=:->

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