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

[Tom Lord]

   From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>

   This stubborn wrong-headed notion that you ever want to modify a
   revision once it's been created needs to stop. You don't. Whatever
   you're trying to do can and should be done in some other way. Usually
   by committing a new revision that changes the offending thing again.

I might agree if I didn't sometimes myself cheat with my private 
archives.

I cheat infrequently enough and under such limited circumstances that
I don't personally miss any built-in support for it but if such support
were cleanly provided I probably would and might even use it more often.

I think a good way to avoid going off the deep end of adding crazy, 
half-working bloat is to first relate the design problem for 
archive retractions to the old, under-explored area of client-side
workspace management features.  (I.e., having arch keep track of 
where and what all of your project trees are; of which are your private
and which public archives; etc.)

-t