Simon Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sun Oct 26 10:11:25 PDT 2008 Simon Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * explain global cache a little more clearly > > > New patches: > > [explain global cache a little more clearly > Simon Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>**20081026171125 > Ignore-this: 73b47bfa1508641d044a0d2bf2e6405e > ] hunk ./src/best_practices.tex 400 > When working with darcs 2 it is recommended to enable a global cache, as > this is one of the biggest performance enhancing tools of darcs 2. The > global cache acts as a giant patch pool where darcs first looks for a > -patch when grabbing new patches, thus you want it to be on the same file > -system as your repositories. On file systems that support it, the > -cached patches are going to be hardlinked (the patch is only stored > -once, but represented in multiple places) across all of your > -repositories. > +patch when grabbing new patches. This saves time by not downloading the > +same patch twice from a remote server. It also saves space by storing the > +patch only once, if you ensure your cache and your repositories are on the > +same hardlink-supporting filesystem,
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