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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch
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Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>
> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 12:34, Robert Anderson wrote:
>> So what's the discussion then? The whole point of a file-id is
>> uniqueness.
> If you're going to be adding a bunch of lines to your files, why not
> have it also serve a dual purpose as a short description?
We've actually learned that lesson the hard way, long ago.
A short description is the sort of thing that you are likely to want
to change for some files, over time -- perhaps to fix a typo, perhaps
to change the description. The instances where you will want to
change the description to not reliably coincide with instances where
you want to change the file tag.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: give us a hand with arch, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Colin Walters, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Mark A. Flacy, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Colin Walters, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Colin Walters, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Charles Duffy, 2003/09/26