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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] corrupt pristine
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Adrian Irving-Beer |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] corrupt pristine |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:44:25 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:00:07AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> But that's the point - he doesn't have a revision library, and
> it worked.
Pristines are just like a local revision library, but inside the
project tree, not hardlinkable, and generally floating (one pristine
that changes with the patchlevel) IIRC.
If you want to compare a tree -- which you have to do every undo, changes,
commit, update, etc. -- you need something to compare it against.
If you have a revision library with the correct revision, it uses that.
If your revlib is set greedy, it adds the revision to the revlib and
uses that.
Otherwise, you need a pristine tree.
Are they automatically generated? Yes. Can they be deleted? You
betcha. Would you want to delete and regenerate them *every changeset
operation*? Heck no.
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