Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

2022-03-14 Thread Julian Foad
Dear dev community, and especially Karl and Mark: A plea to test the current design/implementation. I wonder if we are missing some perspective. We are worried that the current design won't be acceptable because it has poor behaviour in a particular use case. The use case involved running "svn

Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

2022-03-14 Thread Mark Phippard
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 6:48 AM Julian Foad wrote: > > Dear dev community, and especially Karl and Mark: > > A plea to test the current design/implementation. > > I wonder if we are missing some perspective. Hi Julian, I do not believe I can offer much in the way of testing, but I do want to rei

Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

2022-03-14 Thread Julian Foad
Mark Phippard wrote: > [...] I just wanted to bring some user perspective [...] Thanks, Mark. Understood. I also want to clarify that this is my pragmatic side speaking. For anyone who doesn't remember me saying this before, I'll repeat that my purist side would love to see us do the alternative

Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

2022-03-14 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:48 AM Julian Foad wrote: > > Dear dev community, and especially Karl and Mark: > > A plea to test the current design/implementation. > > I wonder if we are missing some perspective. > > We are worried that the current design won't be acceptable because it > has poor beha

Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

2022-03-14 Thread Julian Foad
Johan Corveleyn wrote: >Speaking from the peanut gallery, [...] >If I would be a user with several huge binaries in the repo / WC, I >imagine I would not be happy with this proposal. The reason is that I >have always, forever, only done "svn update the-whole-wc". Updating >individual subdirs is mic

Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

2022-03-14 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 5:26 PM Julian Foad wrote: > > Johan Corveleyn wrote: > >Speaking from the peanut gallery, [...] > >If I would be a user with several huge binaries in the repo / WC, I > >imagine I would not be happy with this proposal. The reason is that I > >have always, forever, only don

Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

2022-03-14 Thread Daniel Sahlberg
Den mån 14 mars 2022 kl 14:00 skrev Julian Foad : > Mark Phippard wrote: > > [...] I just wanted to bring some user perspective [...] > Thanks, Mark. Understood. > > I also want to clarify that this is my pragmatic side speaking. For anyone > who doesn't remember me saying this before, I'll repeat

Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

2022-03-14 Thread Julian Foad
Daniel Sahlberg wrote: >[...] I will try to build a release for myself and use it for dev work. Thank you Daniel. I'm wondering if I (or we) need to do more to facilitate evaluation. I'm thinking of things like adding some feedback to tell the user what it's doing ("fetching missing pristines no

Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

2022-03-14 Thread Julian Foad
Johan Corveleyn wrote: >Well, as I said, I don't have huge binaries myself [...]. That's just me >speculating of course [...] Hi, Johan. I really appreciate you taking the time to write all your thoughts. That kind of speculation has its place and was certainly useful earlier, but we're now at a