Re: Base text files, re: IRC chat

"Greg Stein" <gstein_at_gmail.com> writes:

>Note that if people keep the /bases/ directory in their home dir, then
>the bases will be shared across ALL working copies.

I may have overlooked something obvious, but how would garbage
collection in a shared text-base tree work? Attempting to keep track
of all WCs using it is probably fragile, so I suppose the shared
/bases/ would just keep growing - or is there an aging mechanism that
throws out base files that haven't been used for a while when the tree
reaches a certain size? The client must then be prepared to re-create
any base file that turns out to be missing. (Annoying, if working
off-line.)

With non-shared bases trees (one per WC), a single rm -rf will remove
the whole WC and nothing but the WC.

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Received on 2008-09-15 12:36:52 CEST