[Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit"

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 17:03:38 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Jan Hudec <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 3.b More generally, we need to nail down the mechanism that computes
> > >     "selected" views of the ORIG and MOD trees, and what counts as an
> > >     error.
> > 
> > I think following should work and not get too hard to do: First check
> > for renames across the limit boundary (and probably consider them user
> > error)
> 
> As a practical matter, I don't want renames across boundaries to be an
> error, I'd like the presence of either half of a rename inside a limit
> to automatically include the other half.

Yes. It's probably better. And it's easy -- you just add such a file to
the appropriate list.

> It's very natural to do:
> 
>     mv OLD NEW
>     tla commit -- NEW
> 
> That is, I tend to think of a renamed file as a single entity; if I had
> to do `tla commit -- OLD NEW' to make that work, it would seem very odd.
> 
> -Miles
> -- 
> [|nurgle|]  ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that
>             will  make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth?
> [iddt]      nurg, that's the goal
> 
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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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