Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Working out a branching scheme [was: tag --seal --fix]

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:

> Once the back/optimized-building stuff gets added, things should be even
> better (cacherevs will start to be even more useful, and revlibs will work
> even better).

Err, about those cacherevs...
The backbuilder doesn't take advantage of descendant cacherevs.  And 
when building patch-30, it will ignore a cacherev at patch-20 if there's 
a revlib at patch-10 or patch-50.

The basics are there, though.  It wouldn't be hard to add.  There are 
other things, like backbuilding from a descendant in another branch, and 
building from a sibling, and pipelining scans/patch-gets, and. . .

Once, I even thought of building 
address@hidden/tla--devo--1.1--patch-198 from the cacherev in 
address@hidden/tla--integration--1.1--base-0.  But for 
security reasons, that doesn't look possible.

Aaron