[darcs-users] soc progress 3

Petr Rockai me at mornfall.net
Thu Jun 11 08:19:18 UTC 2009


Nathan Gray <kolibrie at graystudios.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:55:32AM +0200, Petr Rockai wrote:
>> Moreover, I should start looking into getting us a new pristine format that I
>> have promised in my application (the indexed working directory is, obviously,
>> just a part of the whole deal).
>
> If I remember correctly, this has to do with setting up a subdirectory
> structure for the files in the pristine cache, so the files are not
> all in a single directory.
Partially. It is also about packing up the many small files into bigger chunks,
so http transfers are more efficient (ie. fewer roundtrips and less overhead).

> I am wondering if the same approach can be used with the patches
> directory.
Yes, we expect patches to use the same storage system as we have for pristine.

Yours,
   Petr.

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