Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Using Arch to track non-Arch upstreams

[Miles Bader]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:06:35AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> >   (2) Where the taglines are _not_ in the canonical sources, and are
> 
> This is the scenario I am looking at.
> 
> >       re-added to the source files whenever you do an import.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean be re-added; are you thinking of something
> like an automated process that iterates over the tree adding taglines?

Yes (my impression is that Xouvert is using something like this; Jonathan if
you're reading this thread, please correct me).

> Because if you are, I think that still wouldn't track renames well.

It wouldn't track _external_ renames, but it would track _internal_ renames;
if you're going to be doing a lot of the latter (as I beleive Xouvert
intends), then you still get a lot of benefit from using taglines.

In such a system, presumably you would always maintain a specific branch for
doing imports, and on that branch the names would remain fairly static
(though it doesn't matter all that much -- whatever method you use to deal
with external renames would basically be the same for explicit tags or for
`re-added' taglines).  Because arch deals well with renamed files, merges
from your `external' branch to your mega-renamed internal branches would do
the right thing.

-Miles
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