Re: Changes to snapshot process ... ?

Andrew Cagney
2001-10-10T21:24:00Z

>> 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?

Yes, agreed. You wouldn't have a suggestion for a directory name? One
would be gdb/snapshots/current/, as for the other. One thought would be
gdb/snapshots/stable/ however people may read more into that then they
should. I guess I should suggest gdb/snapshots/branch/ and see if
someone comes up with something better :-)

Andrew