Re: Changes to snapshot process ... ?

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

>> 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