Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] tla dosen't handle '--' as end of option argument

[Aaron Bentley]

Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> p.s.  Also, can anyone tell me useful scenarios with 'commit
>       <version>'? I think I actually used it once experimentally,
>       right after tagging off an old branch when I wanted to commit
>       one last thing to it.

Well, with commit --base (not mainline yet), it's quite useful.  To get 
the equivalent of a tag, you can do

tla archive-setup $VERSION
tla add-log-version $VERSION
tla commit --base $BASEREVISION $VERSION --

Oh, and btw, that's the elusive "commit-no-files commit" :-)

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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Panometrics, Inc.