RE: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] how to fix a bad log message?

[Tom Lord]

   From: "John Yates" <address@hidden>

   Here is a half-baked idea...

   It seems to me that arch has conflated two use cases:

   1) committing work to an archive
   2) publishing committed results to the rest of the universe

   Not being an arch developer I can wave my hands and imagine
   decomposing commit into two distinct operations. 

I think that your handwave is a pretty good one.   (e.g,. 
see my immediately preceeding message on this topic)

In the language of your handwave:  in some cases (e.g., a private
developer archive) the conflation is indeed there and probably
can be teased apart.   In other cases, it isn't really "conflation" -- 
the two operations really do belong together in a single atomic
operation -- and arch should continue to support that.

-t