Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tag'ged (branched) and cacherev'ed archive dependency?

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 13:04, Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel wrote:
>         Hi! Here I come with another newbie, probably silly question :)
> 
>         I had a local archive, address@hidden, where I started
> a project ("zzbot--devel--0.1"). Then I decided to create a different archive,
> address@hidden, for all my public projects.
> 
>         I tagged zzbot--devel--0.1 into address@hidden and
> cachereved
> address@hidden/zzbot--devel--0.1--base-0.
> 
>         Now,
> http://regexps.srparish.net/tutorial-tla/elementary-branches.html#Elementary_Branches_--_Maintaining_Private_Changes
> says "Thereafter, arch will no longer rely on Alice and Bob's archive to
> retrieve Candice's base-0 revision.", so I supposed I'd be able to retrieve
> zzbot--devel--0.1 from address@hidden without needing access to
> address@hidden (which I actually intend to erase, eventually,
> it was my first archive, more of a test archive, and I don't use it
> anymore). 
> 
>         But I created a (http) mirror of address@hidden and when
> someone tries to "tla get" zzbot--devel--0.1, they receive:

Your mirror probably doesn't have the cached revision.

That said, deleting the old archive is a generally bad idea, as you lose
access to the detailed history.

Rob
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