On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 3:21 PM Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org> wrote: > > Karl Fogel wrote: > > Is the above happening in MVP? > > Yes. I was describing what Evgeny created last year in the > 'pristines-on-demand' branch. > > > I ask because my understanding of > > MVP was that it's not doing this opportunistic fetching/discarding > > of bases, but rather that it's a simple per-WC setting that means > > "store no pristines in this WC" and that's that. > > MVP is what Evgeny created, but selectively turned on, or not, per WC. When > turned on, it doesn't mean "store no pristines" in that WC.
I am curious what Karl thinks given that he is living this scenario today and wants the feature. I would think that having update create pristines for any modified file taints its usefulness. That said, it is probably still better than what they have today and if the user is on a fast network and disk space is not too big of an issue it might not matter too much. I personally think this is the biggest issue to solve though, more so than selectively choosing pristines for different files. I think the feature just really does not "work as advertised" if it is going to behave this way. Mark
