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Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress
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Robert Collins |
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Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress |
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Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:59:51 +1000 |
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 18:51 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Tom Lord wrote:
>
> > From: John Arbash Meinel <address@hidden>
> >
> > Why doesn't arch assign the id based on the patch log fully qualified
> > revision?
> >
> >It *does*. It does that too. The same id makes sense when viewed that
> >way or when viewed as simple algebra on relative path names.
> >
> >That's the point. Why fuss with it?
> >
> >-t
> >
> >
> The id is currently:
> A_./{arch}/c/c--b/c--b--v/a/patch-log/r
>
> I'm wondering why it isn't just
> A_a/c--b--v--r
>
> The issue is that as long as you keep the directory structure the same,
> there is no difference. But if you want to move where files are stored
> (as in what I'm trying to do), you have to leave the arch-id as the
> original path-based name.
>
> I'm doing that, but it doesn't *feel* like the correct thing. The id
> shouldn't be caught up in a specific implementation of the arch protocol.
Ack. However until we spec up and get some consensus on the behaviour of
id aliases, we need to preserve the id for changesets that pun patch-log
presence with file paths, and synthesis it from disk formats.
Rob
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Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress, Robert Collins, 2005/04/06
- Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress, Tom Lord, 2005/04/08
- Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress, John Arbash Meinel, 2005/04/08
- Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress, Tom Lord, 2005/04/08
- Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress, John Arbash Meinel, 2005/04/08
- Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress, Tom Lord, 2005/04/08
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- Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress, John Arbash Meinel, 2005/04/08
- Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress, Robert Collins, 2005/04/08
Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress, Robert Collins, 2005/04/08