Re: [Gnu-arch-users] more recent changes in address@hidden/tla--mainline--1.1

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 01:42, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:29, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 05:49, Colin Walters wrote:
> > >  
> > > In general, default to being less strict about inventory classification.
> > > Untagged source is now treated as backup by default.  tree-lint is
> > > less strict about untagged source (so you can import/commit).
> > 
> > Wouldn't precious be a better untagged-source default than backup ?
> 
> I don't know.  Would it?  Why do you think so?

# The primary categories are:
#
# category:      copy locally?       safe to clobber?      archive?
#
# junk           no                  yes                   no
# backup         no                  no                    no
# precious       yes                 no                    no

lets see: untagged-source backup won't preserve in tree untagged source
during tree copying operations, but won't clobber it either.
untagged-source precious will preserve untagged source in the tree
during tree copying operations. precious will emulate CVS's behaviour
for untagged source files - backup doesn't.

Rob

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