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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] hardlinked pristine trees
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] hardlinked pristine trees |
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Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:09:21 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <address@hidden>
> > The chief virtue (and also vice) of pristine trees is their location.
> > They allocate space addressed in the same subtree as the project tree
> > they help. The virtuous aspect of that is that if you `rm -rf' a
> > project tree, that has the side effect of freeing-up local revision
> > cache space dedicated to that tree. In short, revision-cache
> Exactly. That was my point about claiming them more "temporary" than
> revlibs. However we can't share them across multiple work dirs. I guess
> that's the worst part of the story about pristine trees.
Not obviously immediately important, but: that's not strictly true.
The search for an appropriate pristine scans not only the current
project tree, but also it's siblings. Have a look at
src/libarch/pristines.c(arch_find_pristine).
> > difficult problem: it is a tricky problem to solve really well -- to
> > solve in a way that works smoothly and that always feels like The
> > Right Thing. (In other words, there's no point in replying with some
> yes, giving a state to the revlib is not a black or white thing.
Right on.
-t
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] losing pristine trees? Slowdown for network archives..., Tom Lord, 2003/10/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] losing pristine trees? Slowdown for network archives..., Paul Hedderly, 2003/10/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] losing pristine trees? Slowdown for network archives..., Tom Lord, 2003/10/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: losing pristine trees? Slowdown for network archives..., Pau Aliagas, 2003/10/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: losing pristine trees? Slowdown for network archives..., Tom Lord, 2003/10/05
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] hardlinked pristine trees, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/10/03