Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive

[Zack Brown]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:01:28PM +0200, Alexander Deruwe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:47:27AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > AFAIK it *does* require access to the original archive. When you tag a
> > category into a new archive, you're creating the equivalent of a
> > symbolic link, *not* moving the data. If you delete the old archive, you
> > lose all your work.
> > 
> > It would be nice to have a clean way to really move a category to a new
> > archive though.
> 
> If you archive-cache the base-0 revision after tagging, you won't need
> access to the old archive anymore.

Doesn't that still leave the revision history slightly altered (there's a
base-o where there wasn't before)? And doesn't 'tla changelog' give different
output? (I haven't tried archive-cache yet, so I don't know)

I think it's possible to just 'mv' the category directory into a new archive,
and re-register it in the new archive. But there's no guarantee that this
will always work. It just happens to work at the moment.

Be well,
Zack

> 
> Alexander
> 
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Zack Brown