Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Paul Hedderly]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:31:04AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> Another point of view says that the idea of an inventory id is a
> usefully universal one that transcends the issues of revision control.
> 
> For example, inventory ids are a prerequisite for mkpatch/dopatch
> functionality, and that functionality seems useful to me even where
> no revision control system is used at all.
> 
> Inventory ids tell you (and your tools) something useful about the
> structure of a source tree and how that structure compares to a
> related tree, regardless of what revision control (if any) is being
> used.
> 
> Thinking of embedded tags as _meta_data misses the point.  They're
> _data_.
> 
> And it may be equally reasonable for trees where people don't use arch
> at all -- even trees where they use a different revision control
> system.

Given then - howabout an option in =tagging-method that lets you choose
the tag; something like

        tag-regex arch-tag:

Could be:

        tag-regex src-uuid-tag:
or
        tag-regex bk-tag:|arch-tag:|src-uuid-tag:

(for loonies :O)

This would allow a) migrations from bk'd source, b)  people to think of
the tag as _data_ and not CM meta-data.

Oh and it would be backward compatible.

--
Paul