Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository

[John Goerzen]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:54:43AM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> It does contain code to rename the directories (which seemed to work when I
> tested it).  Perhaps this didn't work correctly on your tree, but note that
> it doesn't do any renaming until the very end (after it's modified all the
> files); did you wait until it finished?

Yes, and it even printed a message saying it was renaming.  But no error
messages.

> > Another problem is that it deleted all of my cached revs and did not
> > recreate them later.  Again, I could do that manually, but in an
> > archive this size, there are several of them scattered across several
> > different branches, so it's a pain just finding them.
> 
> It deletes cached revisions intentionally to avoid having to deal with that
> case, on the theory that they're pretty easy to recreate.  I can look at
> processing them, but it's probably easier for you to just save a list of
> cached revisions and recreate them after your done.  For instance, here's a
> little shell blurb to get a list of cached revisions:
> 
>    tla abrowse --versions | grep -e '--.*--' | xargs -n1 tla cachedrevs

Nice.  That'll do.

-- John