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[Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: [...] (tree root id?)
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Tom Lord |
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[Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: [...] (tree root id?) |
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Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:53:06 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 01:46:20PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > >Okay, so I understand that arch does not currently look at the
tree-root
> > >at all. I will argue though that it should, as well as looking at
parent
> > >directory id's.
> > That would mean you could never rename the tree root. This is
> > unacceptable for me. I keep several copies of tla around in my home
> > directory, each with a different name.
> That's not how I interpreted what Ben said.
> I though he was saying that arch should keep (or allow) an _id_ for the
root,
> and use that in renaming files within it.
> E.g., to make a subdir `root', one might do:
> cd root
> mv subdir/* .
> tla move-id subdir .
> # [Or, if move-id doesn't work for some reason:
> # tla add --id `tla id subdir` .
> # ]
> rm -rf subdir
> Caveat: I have no idea how arch actually does the diff calculations for
this
> sort of thing. One question comes to mind: what on earth happens to the
> files _already_ present in the root when you do the above...?
It's legit -- insightful even -- to say that arch should but does not
allow . to be tagged.
It's a _fairly_ obsucre case but a completely reasonable request that
can be satisfied upward compatibly (hence, the [BUG] in the subject).
-t
- [Gnu-arch-users] Moving directories to a new branches tree-root (tree root id?), Ben Burns, 2004/04/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving directories to a new branches tree-root (tree root id?), Jan Hudec, 2004/04/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving directories to a new branches tree-root (tree root id?), Ben Burns, 2004/04/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving directories to a new branches tree-root (tree root id?), Jan Hudec, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving directories to a new branches tree-root (tree root id?), Ben Burns, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving directories to a new branches tree-root (tree root id?), Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving directories to a new branches tree-root (tree root id?), Ben Burns, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving directories to a new branches tree-root (tree root id?), Miles Bader, 2004/04/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: [...] (tree root id?),
Tom Lord <=
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving directories to a new branches tree-root (tree root id?), Robert Collins, 2004/04/06