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

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:20:18 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Oct 01 2003, Miles 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.
> > 
> > It's very natural to do:
> > 
> >     mv OLD NEW
> >     tla commit -- NEW
> 
> The way I see it, to safely allow renaming a directory (or file, for
> that matter) arch will have to take into consideration not just the two
> limited trees, but the full base revision and the limited tree of the
> revision that is committed. Otherwise, consider what would happen in

It's said above, that renames across the limit boundary would be checked
first. It comes out of that, that full inventories are really needed.

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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