Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tale of the 'log-for-merge' problem

[Jason McCarty]

Alexander Deruwe wrote:
> From this point on, 'larch merge-points' returned wrong data (starting
> calculation only from patch-128), and since 'larch tag' uses
> 'larch merge-points', that's how the wrong base-0 log ended up in the
> archive.
> 
> Note that tagging from
> address@hidden/aqs-carcontrol--trunk--0.7
> works fine with tla.  I guess it doesn't treat the 'Continuation-of'
> header the same way.
> 
> 
> Now that the cause of this is known, how would I go about fixing my
> archive?  Also, recently I tagged this project into a tla-based archive,
> and 'commit -L' has added faulty 'log-for-merge' output to a couple
> patches; that would need to be fixed too. 

Look at Tom's responses [2], [3] to my similar problem[1]. I think his
procedure should work for you too, if you delete and re-add all your
patch-logs.

Jason

[1] http://lists.fifthvision.net/pipermail/arch-users/2003-July/030350.html
[2] http://lists.fifthvision.net/pipermail/arch-users/2003-July/030354.html
[3] http://lists.fifthvision.net/pipermail/arch-users/2003-July/030357.html