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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE REQUEST] changeset translation preparato
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE REQUEST] changeset translation preparatory work |
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Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:52:40 +0900 |
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>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
Stefan> Actually, some systems such as Emacs's VC package likes to
Stefan> be able to find out the revision-control status of a file
Stefan> without running any program (so it also works if `tla' is
Stefan> not available).
Stefan> Arch is really bad already in this regard since you can
Stefan> pretty easily figure out the current branch, but you
Stefan> generally can't tell whether a given file is
Stefan> source/nonsource without running tla (unless you
Stefan> reimplement this part of tla which is nontrivial).
What you're really saying is that tla gives you a lot more flexibility
in defining "source", right?
I guess my take is "if you're going to take advantage of that
flexibility, keep a copy of tla around".
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