I understand WHY now. Since val-tags is just a cache, where is the "real" tags repository. Again in my last post, I said I did NOT see the deleted tag in val-tags anymore, and don't see a tag that should still be there.
-chris >-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:56 PM >To: Derek Price >Cc: Fouts Christopher (IFNA MP DC); info-cvs@gnu.org >Subject: Re: Question re: deleted tags > > >Derek Price writes: >> >> Since tag deletion is considered a relatively rare operation >(as well >> it >> should be), no one has ever bother to write the code for the >expensive, >> complete tag search that would be necessary to determine if >the tag is >> really completely gone and should really be deleted from val-tags. > >It's not necessary -- since val-tags is just a cache, it would >be safe to just delete it regardless. Of course, the first >thing that needs to be done is to add some kind of locking for >the val-tags file since there isn't any right now and the more >we update it the better the chance of it getting corrupted by >simultaneous updates. > >-Larry Jones > >I'm so disappointed. -- Calvin > _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
