Re: [Gnu-arch-users] library-add w/o ancestor checking?

[Aaron Bentley]

Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> Any way I can get library-add (in sparse mode, presumably) to add,
> say, patch-150 from my archive (a known cacherev) without bothering to
> go back through the project's entire lifespan searching for an
> ancestor in the library?

This is a pathological case for the way library-add builds revisions. 
tla get --no-greedy-add would behave nicely here, because it uses a 
different algorithm.

Unfortunately, the only way to fix it is to hack the revision-building code.

> And further to that, is there any way (at a later patch, 194 in this
> case) to tell a greedy add to stop at that last cacherev (150),
> without doing the sparse-150 add above (with or without the extended
> ancestry checking)?

I don't think there is.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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