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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases |
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Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:42:31 +0100 |
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:27:07PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> (As a minor point, the names "tree" and "global" are confusing. By
> "global" I think you really mean "user" and by "tree" I think you
> really mean "version". One thing missing in your proposal is (what I
> would call) "tree" aliases -- those specific to a particular project
> tree (but just that tree -- not committed along with the tree).
No, these really are tree aliases. Version aliases are something else
that may also be desireable, but I'm damned if I can see how to
implement them sanely (problem: which version do I look in?).
The significant distinction here is that if I get a tree, then replay
a changeset over it, that replay may change the value of a tree alias,
but may not change the value of a version alias.
(You've also described precious tree aliases - I'm not really sure if
those are useful, but they are different again)
> > Can I do stupid things with aliases?
> > ------------------------------------
> > Of course you can! If you alias "address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3"
> > as "address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3", then when you type tla get
> > address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3, you'll get Lord's version
> > instead.
>
> That is completely unacceptable and easily fixed. The introduction of
> aliases should not create syntactactic ambiguities like that.
Personally, I'd rather have a prefix character that denotes "user
alias", or "tree alias", or whatever.
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, James Blackwell, 2004/07/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/07/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases,
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/07/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/07/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/07/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/07/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Jan Hudec, 2004/07/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/07/21
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, James Blackwell, 2004/07/20