Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla changes / tla tree-lint

[John A Meinel]

Anand Kumria wrote:
> So,
>
> I've just been working fairly heavily on a project and one of things that
> constantly annoyed me during the process was how I'd do 'tla changes' but
> it'd complain because 'tla tree-lint' wasn't satisfied.
>
> This was because additional precious/backup files had been generated. I
> tend to use 'tla changes' a lot as a means to see what I've done and to
> determine if where I'm up to is a good commit point.
>
> It'd be nice if there was a 'tla changes
> --assume-files-which-tree-lint-would-barf-at-are-precious --diffs' or
> similar option.
>
> Cheers,
> Anand

The problem with duplicated ids is that who is the 'true' file. If I 
originally have the files foo.c and bar.c, and then I move bar.c to 
baz.c and copy it to bar2.c, then modify both.
When you do tla changes, who is the rightful child of bar.c. Because 
either one is valid.

tla changes works by generating a changeset (the thing you commit), and 
then printing the changes. You can't generate a changeset with conflicts.

Maybe there could be an option for "--ignore-conflicts" type of thing. 
It would show you the files that conflicted, but then continue to 
generate the diffs for other files.

I do agree that something like this could be useful. Having to clean up 
your tree just to double check what you did is a little bit of a pain.

John
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