Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using RCS, Xdelta, CVS, .... for revlib

[Charles Duffy]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 13:26, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Has anyone considered storing the revlib in some local revision control
> system ?  That would be much more disk efficient than hardlinking.

And not nearly as fast or useful. Ignoring speed and going for utility
value: The revlib isn't just there for use by arch itself; it's used
also by various users' add-on tools and scripts (indeed, any set of
tools capable of working on a bunch of files, not just tools that know
about Arch). This is one of the advantages of its existance as a
hardlink tree.