[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making --setup default in tag and import

[Stefan Monnier]

>> If such a command were actually offered by tla, it should try to
>> automatically enforce safety (e.g., once if a branch/revision has been
>> mirrored/checked-out, it shouldn't be deleted) and maybe implementing
>> such enforcement is too annoying.  But that's a practical decision.

> This is an interesting thought. Check to see the archive is mirrored. If
> not, prune it from the archive, revision library, .arch-cache, etc.

> But does that cover all cases? What if someone else on the same machine
> points directly at an archive you classify as private but isn't?

As already pointed out, the better way to handle it is not to disallow
mirroring, but to propagate history changes through mirroring, just like any
other change.  The "Supercedes" header of NNTP is a good starting point.


        Stefan