Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla-lineage scripts are done

[Dustin Sallings]

On Jan 10, 2004, at 12:45, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> >     I did a similar non-arch-like thing after importing a bunch of my 
> > revisions from CVS.  Since the dates didn't get updated correctly, I 
> > wanted to go through all of the patch logs and set the dates to the 
> > original check-in date.  I did it in-place in a mirror, though.  It 
> > was ugly, but my changelogs and stuff are accurate now.  :)
>
> You know, I'm not so sure that's a non-Arch thing.  Isn't one of the 
> design wins the fact that you can do more with your Arch repository 
> than just the things tla can do?  Obviously, we'd all rather not have 
> to. . .

	I like to think of Arch in terms of functional programming, immutable 
data and all.  Changing patch logs is changing history.  Breaking 
immutability also breaks the following features:

        - mirroring
        - checksumming/signing
        - cached revs

	After I fixed all of the dates throughout the archive, I had to mirror 
it to update the checksums, then rsync it over the original and all of 
the mirrors to get all of the patches correct again.

        It's not an every day thing, though.

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