Re: [Lxr-dev] Tag "head" in its timeline (was: /bin/true as a zombie)

[Malcolm B. <ma...@br...>]

pe...@if... wrote:

>I have been thinking about this as well. The ideal situation would be
>if it was a way to index every revision of every file. It would then
>be possible to select which version of a file to view, independently
>from the version tags. 
>
I'm not convinced this would work well on heavily used repositories - 
many of the versions checked in will have little or no lasting value, so 
indexing them would simply eat up space with no benefit.  Since a 
release is automatically something that people care about (else it 
wouldn't have been a release), simply indexing the releases seems to me 
to make more sense.  

The linux code testbed for the lxr is atypical here, since the indexer 
is not running off the real Linux development repository.  So all 
versions of the files in the CVS repository are created by importing 
releases, resulting in all versions needing to be indexed.  This is 
certainly not true of other users of the lxr who run it against a live 
development repository.

Cheers,

Malcolm