[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla update edge case

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > tla tag -S foo--bar--0--patch-53 foo--bar--1
> > tla get foo--bar--1 dir
> > tla update --dir dir foo--bar--0--patch-53,
> >
> > because update uses the version of the specified revision.  And you 
> > already have foo--bar--0--patch-53.
> >
> > I was expecting it to always use the latest revision in the tree version 
> > for these calculations.  I nearly buggoed it, but this is actually the 
> > documented behaviour.
> >
> > Anyone know why?
>
>
> It makes sense to me...
>
> Why do you expect update to simply ignore the `--patch-53' that you
> specified on the command line?  If you wanted that, you could have just
> omitted the patch-number yourself.

Well, since what I have is foo--bar--1--base-0, I expected it to do:

tla undo foo--bar--1--base-0
tla apply-delta foo--bar--1--base-0 foo--bar--0--patch-53
tla redo

When I use update, the specified version and the tree-version are always 
the same, so that's how I extrapolated.

Aaron