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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:18:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090208221814.722f573a@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498E17E6.8060407@gentoo.org>

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On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:23:18 -0800
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Well, usually you don't keep intermediate or generated files in a
> > VCS, so why the metadata?
> 
> People who distribute overlays commonly ask if it's possible to
> distribute metadata cache with the overlay. Using a format that
> doesn't rely on timestamps will allow them to distribute metadata
> cache using their existing infrastructure, which is typically git or
> subversion. In addition to overlays, it would also be useful for
> forks of the entire gentoo tree, such as the funtoo tree [1].

Are these people really all going to remember to run some command at
the top level of the repository before every commit, and to git add the
relevant files for everything (thus making really messy commits)?

Sticking metadata cache files under version control really is a perfect
example of doing it wrong...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-08 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 20:34 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation Zac Medico
2009-02-06  9:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Markus Ullmann
2009-02-07  1:13   ` Zac Medico
2009-02-07 22:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2009-02-07 23:23   ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08  8:07     ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-08  8:59       ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 11:51         ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-08 20:36           ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 21:48             ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-08 22:14               ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 22:18     ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2009-02-08 22:43       ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 22:47         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-08 23:03           ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 23:10             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-08 23:27               ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 23:30                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-08 23:40                   ` Zac Medico
2009-02-09 12:30                     ` Petteri Räty
2009-02-09 13:59                       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-09 14:15                         ` Petteri Räty
2009-02-09 14:18                           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-09 14:21                           ` Rémi Cardona
2009-02-09 20:19                       ` Zac Medico
2009-02-09 18:43         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-09 20:02           ` Zac Medico
2009-02-09 15:22     ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-09 19:55       ` Zac Medico
2009-02-10 12:20         ` Brian Harring
2009-02-10 12:52           ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-02-10 20:55           ` Zac Medico
2009-02-11  9:00             ` Brian Harring
2009-02-11 10:01               ` Zac Medico
2009-02-14 13:18                 ` Brian Harring
2009-02-14 20:16                   ` Zac Medico
2009-02-15 22:51     ` Zac Medico
2009-02-15 23:15       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-15 23:26         ` Zac Medico
2009-02-15 23:30           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-15 23:56             ` Zac Medico
2009-02-16  0:06               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-16  0:48                 ` Zac Medico
2009-02-16  0:53                   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-16  0:54                   ` Zac Medico

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