Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla

[John A Meinel]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> This is something I strongly believe to be worthwhile from a users point
> of view - where it makes sense of course, have only one way to do thing.
> Only have multiple mechanisms when you _need_ them.
>
> I personally prefer a unix-like command subspace, as in tla mv, tla ln,
> tla cp, etc. Having to remember which operations are "tla" commands and
> which are plain unix is unnecessary thought-overhead, in my opinion!
>
> cheers
> zen

This is where I semi-disagree. I'm fine with having a set of commands 
(tla cp, tla mv, tla...) which always work. And that will support people 
who want the "completely consistent" view.

But if I know what's going on, and don't like having to type 4 extra 
characters each time, or I want to use say Nautilus (or windows 
explorer). It would be nice if it would do what I want.

Also, tla mv,rm et al *won't* work in a darcs repository, or a bitkeeper 
repository, or a svn one.

So then you have to remember where you are again, and what command does 
what you want.

If they all used taglines (again a pipe dream, I know) then they all 
could use just plain mv, and they all wouldn't need to re-invent the 
wheel all the time.

And for the case where you can't have a tagline you have tla mv-id (and 
no tla mv) which will move a file id that has become dis-associated.

And then on commit or tree-lint you get a nicer error message:

  The file associated with id blah.c.id cannot be found.
  Did you move or delete the file [m/d]? m
  Supply the new filename: blahblah.c
  Renamed blah.c.id -> blahblah.c.id

  The file associated with id bliss.id cannot be found.
  Did you move or delete the file [m/d]? d
  Are you sure [y/N]? y
  Deleted bliss.id.

John
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