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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions
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Robert Collins |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions |
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Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:42:35 +1000 |
On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 09:28 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 08:44 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >
> >>Jason McCarty wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>The problem is that you tried to cacherev a revision that tla already
> >>>made a cacherev for. This is a bug, see http://bugs.gnuarch.org/74 .
> >>>
> >>>Apparently you can uncacherev it and cacherev it again to fix it.
> >>
> >>Since I didn't want to tamper with the archive transaction
> >>functionality, I changed the cacherev UI so it refuses cacherev when
> >>there was already a cacherev. That was merged into 1.2.2rc1 IIRC
> >
> >
> > With an error? or just returns 0 (as the request, to have a cacherev,
> > has been fulfilled )
>
> With an error. It would be deceptive to claim that a new cacherev had
> been installed if it hadn't. For example, if you know your cacherev
> checksums are bogus but don't know you need to uncacherev, you might do
> cacherev, see no error output, and assume the problem is fixed.
>
> It also saves people's time as they discover very quickly that they no
> longer need to explicitly cachrev when tagging from a different archive.
Heh, it also broke some scripts of mine, I hadn't gotten around to
debugging why. How do you feel about an option?
Rob
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- [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions, Andrei A. Voropaev, 2004/10/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions, Jason McCarty, 2004/10/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions, Aaron Bentley, 2004/10/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions, David Allouche, 2004/10/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions, Aaron Bentley, 2004/10/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions, David Allouche, 2004/10/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions, Aaron Bentley, 2004/10/15