Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla suggestions

[Ulf Ochsenfahrt]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 21:57 -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
> > > > Where is the bugtracker that I can put this in? At least three people
> > > > have agreed that this would be a good idea (and noone opposed it), so it
> > > > should not be forgotten!
> > > 
> > > https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/products/bazaar
> > 
> > That one's in. Launchpad is buggy. When I enter a bug, I can't get back
> > to the product. Also at the top it shows a history line:
> 
> Brad Bollenbach is the launchpad bts developer. As the main malone
> developer, he's very good at dealing with his bug reports at 
> http://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/products/malone
> 
> > 2. better support for no-network (disconnected) operation
> 
> Is this a joke?  Granted, baz has developed a bit of an achilles heel as
> it comes to disconnected ops, but tla is pretty damn good at this with
> properly application of local mirrors.

I am specifically refering to:

2a. upload/download status (progress bar)

2b. some commands do network access, some don't, some do some of the
time, simply trying (without network) _is_ asking for trouble

2c. in particular, tla changes after tla commit

2d. interrupting a slow long operation (such as an upload) leaves locks
lying in the archive - when trying again, tla should tell me why it
failed and what i can do about it


I don't mean to belittle your work. tla is great, and IMHO easily the
best source control system around.

But, have you ever tried to use tla in disconnected mode? I am forced to
use it like that _every single day_. Yes, it IS better than everything
else, cvs in particular. I have some projects still running on cvs
(because tlas windows support sucks) and I can't even do "cvs add"
without network.

So, that is no joke. If someone could improve these things, that would
be great, 2c in particular (for baz, someone has already done that).

Cheers,

-- Ulf

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