Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date

[Dustin Sallings]

On Dec 17, 2003, at 21:54, Charles Duffy wrote:

> One alternative approach, btw, which just occurred to me:
>
> cscvs could support the use of an LD_PRELOAD such as libfaketime to 
> make
> the system time appear to tla to be that at which a commit is supposed
> to occur.

	I would hope it wouldn't have to come to that.  The ability to alter 
the date might lead to abuse, but it doesn't seem that there's really 
away around the need for tools like this.

	Perhaps a --date implementation would create another header for the 
actual creation timestamp...something like that.

> This still leaves us without a good way of changing my-id for just one
> invocation (without any chance of leaving it in a bad state after an
> unexpected exit) -- but perhaps the same approach could be applied 
> there
> as well.

	It seems to me that all commands allow overriding of the default 
archive, having them override the id might make sense as well.

        However, you'd need to map the rcs id to a tla id somehow.

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