AdrianVovk commented on issue #1857: URL: https://github.com/apache/buildstream/issues/1857#issuecomment-1879152445
If you delete your project.refs file on every re-track (like carbonOS does), no absolutely not. It ensures that `project.refs` is in a stable order, which makes diffing possible in the first place. Otherwise each re-track will be in an order that's determined by which elements finished downloading first, which is essentially random and un-diffable If you don't delete project.refs on every re-track (i.e. you preserve insertion order), I wouldn't say it leads to worse diffs. Instead of each package's ref being inserted/removed from the end of the list, it might be inserted/removed/updated somewhere in the middle -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
