Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] FEATURE PLAN -- library nicknames

[Bug Goo]

Created as bug 142

On Fri Jun  4 20:44:22 2004, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> Users can now manage a whole collection of revision libraries via
> library paths.   Commands like library-add and library-config need to
> effect a specific library, though.   Whatever heuristics are chosen
> for DWIM-mode when users don't tell such commands which library to act
> upon, there needs to also be a DWI-say mode in which users say which
> library to act on.
> 
> For the DWI-say mode, using the path-name of the library is
> suboptimal, especially in scripts that are intended to be portable.
> Rather, it'd be nice to be able to indicate a library by a name that
> describes its logical function.
> 
> Therefore, there needs to be a mechanism by which libraries have a
> "default nickname" and by which individual users can assign a
> different nickname.   Commands that operate on specific libraries need
> to understand these names as indications of which library to operate on.
> 
> -t
> 
> 
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