[Gnu-arch-users] Re: in-tree pristines fatally wounded (merge-fest etc)

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > That would be another `mechanism command'.  It's a bit confusing
    > because replay and update (especially replay) currently seem tied to
    > particular mechanisms, but I (and I presume others) often use them
    > rather more blindly, [....]

    > If you think of tla as being an end-user tool, 


I tend to think of it as a tool for programmers.

    > One problem with the `link-sync' approach, is that if you really want
    > to support hard-linked trees, you'd have to replicate the existing
    > wealth of tree-modifying commands -- replay, update, star-merge --
    > with hard-linking versions.  Of course in the presence of conflicts
    > and tree-local changes, you can't exactly do this precisely, but it
    > seems desirable to at least keep the tree from drifting away from the
    > `hard linked state' over time as new revisions are incorporated.

Too much magic.  Too fragile.

-t