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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: ac131313@cygnus.com
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Changes to snapshot process ... ?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:07:00 -0000
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> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:58:12 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> 
> For alternating:
> 
> That is pretty arbitrary.  The objective is to constrain the volume of 
> raw data that shadow sites have to download every night.
> 
> An alternative would be to cut back on the snapshot frequency (weekly 
> only) but maintain the nightly and weekly diffs.  (Although, to be 
> honest, that is more tricky.)

Suppose someone only wants the branch snapshots: can she easily find
out which snapshot is which?  If that's not easy, how about putting
each type of snapshot into its own directory, to avoid confusion?