Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla get PANIC

[Aaron Bentley]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 17:24, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 16:44, John F Meinel Jr wrote:
> > I'm trying to track down an odd tla PANIC. Specifically, if I do 'tla 
> > get' in an empty directory it works fine. But if I do 'tla get' in a 
> > directory that has other sub-directories, I get a PANIC.
> 
> That's not normal.  It should not matter what directory you get in.  

I'm wrong.  

> 
> > Why is tla looking in any of the other sub-directories, and what is it 
> > looking for? 

It's looking for pristine trees that it can use to build faster.

> > One of my sub-directories is an old test directory that I 
> > created that would have the same repository id, but it was for an 
> > archive that I nuked as part of learning tla.

Unfortunately, in your case it's finding pristines from another
timeline.  False historical data is really bad for Arch.  This is why we
say "don't try to change history".

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
PanoMetrics, Inc.