Re: [Gnu-arch-users] bug in selected files commit?

[Martin Pool]

On 16 Apr 2004, Jani Monoses <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I feel sure someone else must have noticed this, but I didn't see it
> > in the archives.
> > 
> > With tla 1.2-2:
> > 
> >   kate 2.6.5-ia64% tla commit -s 'Fix bug in showing warnings for
> >   undefined symbols' -- scripts/modpost.c make-changeset-files: file
> >   missing from ORIG tree (scripts/modpost.c)
> > 
> >   kate 2.6.5-ia64% tla commit -s 'Fix bug in showing warnings for
> >   undefined symbols' -- ./scripts/modpost.c M  ./scripts/modpost.c
> >   * update pristine tree
> >   (address@hidden/linux--mbp-ia64--2.6--patch-12 =>
> >   linux--mbp-ia64--2.6--patch-13)* committed
> >   address@hidden/linux--mbp-ia64--2.6--patch-13
> > 
> > Why does the first one fail?
> 
> It happens here as well with names tagging method. The names in thelist
> must be relative to the tree-root because that is the file id for
> 'names'.
> I think if you tranform each filename in this longer name in the commit
> command it should work.

Yes, it does.  Is there some reason why it needs to be like this or is
it just a bug?

> With explicit I found you can commit a file deep in the tree
> only by specifying its name.
> I assume you use tagline?I haven't tried that.

Actually this tree was using names tagging.

The thing I found strange is that file-diffs works with either name.

-- 
Martin