Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing

[Theodore Tso]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:17:43PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> It may be theoretically interesting to minimize the space taken up by
> revisions, but I think it is more economically sensible to screw that
> and and instead, maximize convenience and interactive speed with
> features like revision libraries (as in arch).  This ain't the early
> 90's any more.

For What It's Worth, on a laptop environment (where I work quite a
bit) and for something the size of the Linux kernel, and where things
change at the speed of the Linux kernel, in fact space efficiency
matters a lot.

In fact, the one thing for which I was quite unhappy with BK until
Larry implemented bk lclone (aka bk clone -l) was the amount of space
having multiple copies of the same repository took up, since BK really
requires multiple sandboxes for parallel development.  It's not a big
deal with something the size of e2fsprogs, but for something the size
of the BK linux tree, Size Really Matters.

						- Ted