Re: wc-to-wc copies and wc-ng

Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> writes:

> (*) and if the work items cannot succeed, then we have problems. I
> could imagine the process is killed during the wq run, some source
> files are torched, and then the destination is cleaned up (ie. wq is
> run again). Without the source files, then we'd have problem
> completing the work items. Thus, an argument exists for stashing away
> copies of all (modified or unversioned) sources into temp files.

That's what I've been implementing.

> Non-modified are just pulled from the pristine store.

I don't see an benefit in this. Whether we copy from the pristine or
the unmodified working we still have to make a copy. It might even be
more efficient to copy from the unmodified working where keywords/eols
are already expanded. Using the pristine would allow us to delay the
copy but that doesn't seem to be an advantage.

-- 
Philip