[Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch 1.3.4 release candidate 1

[Andy Tai]

Hi, I would like to announce the first release candidate of GNU Arch (tla) 
1.3.4.   It is
available at

http://www.atai.org/gnuarch/prereleases/tla-1.3.3.99.tar.gz

This version has a few bug fixes from Debian but the main changes are at the 
user interface level.
 Specifically a few commonly used commands from bazaar are added to tla:


tla lint

   is an alias for tla tree-lint
   
tla add

   is an alias for tla add-id
   
tla branch [options] [SOURCE] BRANCH

   behaves like tla tag except that it can use the current directory as the 
source and then switch
the current directory to the new branch
    
tla diff [options] [revisions] -- [files...]

   functions like tla what-changed --diffs  but supports the following 
additional usage for some
common operations:

   tla diff -L
       compares the current tree with the latest versions in the
       repository (what is commonly called the 'HEAD' version in CVS)
       
   tla diff -s
       shows the names of the changed files only (by default diff shows
       the whole changes)
       
   
   tla diff -- file1 file2 ...
       shows only the changes in the specified files
       
tla export [options] [revision] [dir] or [options] [dir]  

   allows the full source tree of  particular revision to be placed in a 
directory excluding meta
files used by Arch/tla.

tla switch  [options] [package]
   
   changes the current source directory to a particular revision with 
uncommitted changed
preserved.

tla tree-id
tla tree-revision
    
   prints the tree revision name the current directory corresponds to
   
   
In addition, a new "basic" help mode is provided:

tla help -b

only shows the "basic" commands necessary for using tla, reducing the 
complexity of the help
messages and makes tla less intimidating to new users.

tla help and tla --help behave the same as before. 

Please let me know of any problems with this prerelease; if no issues found 
this will appear as
the official release some times later next week.  Patches to improve the 
documentation are
especially welcome.

Thanks to patches from Derek Zhou <address@hidden>.

Thanks
Andy