Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:05:20AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:05:56PM +0200, Alexander Deruwe wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:14:46AM +0100, Paul Hedderly wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Even better - if we start adding taglines (unique, unchanging tags) such
> > > as:
> > > 
> > > /*
> > >  * arch-tag: DO_NOT_CHANGE_b85434bac70c3f186e66c110805ec317
> > >   */
> > 
> > As I mentioned in another thread, it would be beneficial to start adding
> > these to the kernel source even before arch is being used wildly.
> > 
> > Also, I think using Miles' suggested tagline format is slightly better,
> > because the "do not change" notification can be removed once people get
> > used to the concept of a tagline.
> 
> all you care is an hash resolving a filename to a sort of unique id
> b85434bac70c3f186e66c110805ec317.
> 
> this hash should be maintained outside the data, it's as simple as that.
> During import + tla add/rm/mv. This random almost unique ID should be
> generated automatically. Then you can forget about the tagging file
> mode enterely, those options can be dropped, there will be only one, and
> we can discuss if to do strict or permissive checkins by default
> (because then doing strict checkins will be always possible ;)

That's the "explicit" tagging method.

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