[Gnu-arch-users] tagging is slow

[Miles Bader]

I've noticed that as I accumulate more revisions, creating a tag -- an
operation that's supposed to be "cheap" in arch -- gets slower, and
slower, and slower...  [often like 20-30 minutes!]

As far as I can figure (it's hard to tell as there's no indicator of
what it's actually doing), it's doing `something' for every patch-log in
the tagged-from branch, e.g., fetching the corresponding archive
patch-log for all of them (a horrifically slow thing to do over a link
with any latency)?  Does anyone know what's really going on?

[Of course, another slight annoyance is that the resulting base-0
patch-log is _huge_, as it contains every single past patch-log file in
the "New-patches:" header.  Are there common operations which depend on
this info being present?  If only uncommon operations use it, following
the Continuation-of: headers and caching the patch-log set whenever
there's a cacherev would seem more scalable.]

Thanks,

-miles
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