Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Question on --link and commit/update/replay

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Samuel Tardieu <address@hidden>

    > When I get a version with "tla get --link ..." and then change a file,
    > how can I have the "tla commit ..." operation replace the changed file
    > by a link to the revision library?

    > Same questions with update/replay/whatsoever. I can't see anything in
    > {arch} indicating that "--link" had been used and should be used
    > again. What did I miss?

commit doesn't do that automatically because, currently, it has no
reason to eagerly add the newly committed revision to your revlib.

Merge commands (update/replay/star-merge/sync-tree) don't do that
because they can't know without comparing files when it is safe to
make a link.

I wouldn't at all mind a new command, `relink', that could be run
periodically to replace files with links and I can't think of a good
reason off the top of my head not to consider a --relink option to
`commit' (treating commit specially since it wouldn't have to compare
files).

-t