On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:47:53PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On 12/12/2011 10:29 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > Patches should never be in the lookaside cache, because > > it is very difficult to view them. > > IMO if that'd be a consideration, the lookaside cache shouldn't really > exist at all, everything should be in git instead. > To some extent I agree with both sgallagh's sentiment and the logical conclusion you're drawing. However, I think the lookaside cache is a necessary optimization/compromise to the ideal of putting everything into version control, though. Current technology would make it prohibitive in terms of packager time (and for some packages, space on developer's machines) to put tarballs into git as the cloned repository would then contain every single new tarball the package ever had.
So I think for me, lookaside isn't there to separate data from upstream from data generated by Fedora -- it's there to supplement the SCM when a file is not suitable for direct inclusion into the SCM. -Toshio
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