Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tagline considered harmful?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Maksim Lin <address@hidden>

    > Having read in the tla docs that tagline is the recommended tagging 
    > method, I'm wondering what the compelling reasons for using it are?
    >  From my point of view it seesm quite limiting in that:
    > - It won't work with binary files [....]
    > - It won't work for things like xml-type documents that are produced by 
    > many 3rd party apps [...]
    > - It makes it very easy (though admittedly not epecially likely) for 
    > anyone editing the file to accidently stuff up the tagline
    > - It means that I need some mechanism to come up with unique taglines 
    > [....]

    > Against all this I see almost no disadvantages to using the explicit 
    > method [...]

Then use explicit.


    > except for the small 
    > inconvienience of having to remember to do 'tla add ...' and as a 
    > perforce user (at work) I've pretty much learnt to do that as par for 
    > the course.
    > So am I missing something about using taglines?

And you'll have to use `tla move', etc.   If you're used to that in
your work habits, good for you.   Some of us despise it.

-t