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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: unifying =tagging-method and .arch-inventory
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Colin Walters |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: unifying =tagging-method and .arch-inventory |
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Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:52:32 -0400 |
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 00:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Two reasons. First of all, I use "explicit" on projects where I don't
> > want people to use taglines.
> > Having everything consistent is nicer.
>
> You could just as well tell them not to use taglines.
Yes...but it's nicer to just explicitly reflect that I don't want them
used.
> If tagline first checks the .arch-ids directory, it shouldn't make any
> difference, should it?
You're right, yeah.
> > Second, the "names" method is probably useful on trees where you can't
> > add metadata like .arch-ids or tagline content for whatever reason; this
> > came up a while back but I forget what the scenario was exactly.
>
> Isn't "tagline" a proper superset of "names" as well?
Well, no. You don't hae to do 'tla add' or include a tagline when
you're using "names". That's kind of the point...
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