Re: [Gnu-arch-users] a brief note on "delta compression"

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:

> Cached revisions are a
> huge page in the ass with emacs because they're so @#$%! large, so I try to
> use them as rarely as possible, with the result that anyone tracking emacs
> only occasionally is going to pay the zillion-changeset price.  It'd be nice
> to have some way for that not to happen.

Help is on the way.  In the backbuilder, import revisions are not 
automatically used.  They're only used if there are no local revisions 
within 50 revisions.

I'd like to do something smarter than "50 revisions", but
1. I don't have sufficient data (no file size info until the downloads 
are complete)
2. 50 is a pretty good number with tla--devo--1.2 over 1MB/s DSL.

I expect that number to become tweakable or be replaced with something 
smarter later.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.