Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Unable to 'tla get' from public mirror -- PANIC: I/O error

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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> One solution would be for get to use the official name, and succeed. Another 
> would be for it to note the name mismatch and fail.  I think the second is 
> probably better, because after you fixed 'get', there'd be a plethora of 
> other commands to fix, and after you fixed all the commands, the payoff would 
> be quite small.  Having get fail with a clearer error "Cannot use foo because 
> it is registered with the wrong name.  Please register it as bar" would stop 
> people from going too far down the wrong path.
>
> What do other people think?


YES, PLEASE. It took me yesterday a few hours till I saw, that I 
accidently registered a mirror of a collegue of mine with a different 
alias. tla get worked like a charm but when I tried to tla missing it 
showed me that all 120 patches were still not applied. tla update of 
course refused to work at all: trees are not related. A warning would be 
nice.

> Aaron

IB
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