Re: [Gnu-arch-users] unmatched files

[Tom Lord]

    > From: address@hidden
    > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:26:19PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
    > >     > From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>
    > >     > Given that I've explicitly
    > >     > told tla what files are source, why should I have to redundantly
    > >     > classify files via regexp as well?

    > > Because it would have been tactically better for me to release
    > > (tagless) `inventory' as a separate tool, before arch, touting its
    > > virtues for purposes such as `make dist' targets.

    > > And then it would just happen to be an external dependency of a
    > > separately releaseed `mkpatch/dopatch' where tags would be introduced.

    > > And then arch would have been released just as bookkeeping tools for
    > > those tools.

    > I simply fail to follow you here, what on earth are you talking
    > about..  I find the issue Colin states very true, its very
    > confusing to see tagging and regexpes fighting, certainly when
    > its possible to _not_ commit explicitly added files because your
    > regexpes say they are not elligable (see the relevant
    > bugreport).


It's a layered design.   The regexps say which are the "source files"
(among a few other categories).   The tags give them name-independent 
identity.

The naming conventions are useful for other things besides revision
control even though they aren't packaged separately.

-t