Tagline tagging failings -- Was: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla mv gets me an error next commit

[Karl O. Pinc]

On 2004.11.15 19:05 John A Meinel wrote:
> Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> > Error calling `vu_stat' for 
> > "/home/kop/work/babase/./conversion/txtdir/foodcodes.txt" (No such 
> > file or directory)
> > PANIC: I/O error
> >
> > What's the story here?  There should be no such file and arch should
> > know I've moved it, as it did the move.
>
> I can't say exactly what's going on here, but you are doing the same 
> thing that you are doing in the other post. A partial commit with a 
> limit.

Uh, at the risk of sounding stupid, could I do a partial commit
without a limit?

Arch is starting to annoy me this way.  I do different fixes
in different parts of the tree and arch seems to want to
glom everything together into a big changeset when I want
to commit lots of little fixes as I get done with them.

Isn't there some way to tell arch to commit a part of my tree,
and as long as it sees everything that's 'moved from' also
appears in that part of my tree as 'moved to' then it goes ahead?
I did use 'tla mv' so it ought to have all the details.
Likewise with 'tla add'.  Obviously, this won't work with the
tagline id tagging method, but that's not a reason why
explicit taggers should have to put up with these restrictions.

Being able to do moves is a big step up from cvs, but
if anytime I move, or add, or delete I'd better be sure that
there are no other unrelated changes in my tree that's a
big intrusion into my work habits for a revision control
system to make.  Or else I get messy commits that wooge
a bunch of unrelated changes into my changesets.

There.  I'm done moaning.  I just hope that I'm moaning
in support of something rather than moaning in the wind.

> As far as the other problem with "no such file or directory", I'm not 
> sure what the problem is.
>
> Is there actually a file:
>  /home/kop/work/babase/./conversion/txtdir/foodcodes.txt
>
> Note, this is the actual file, not the inventory id. This type of 
> error can occur when an inventory id exists, but there is no 
> corresponding file.

There _was_ such a file, until I moved it with tla mv.  It's
id file moved along with it to it's parent directory.

> It might also be possible that your precious regex is matching too 
> much, and "foodcodes.txt" is being considered precious, but I doubt 
> that.

Actually, foodcodes.txt _should_ be considered precious, when it's
in txtdir/.  Everything in there should be precious but the
necessary arch config files.

But I don't think that's it because I tried taking out the
.arch-inventory file in txtdir/ and that didn't help.

Karl <address@hidden>
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