[Gnu-arch-users] Re: baz make-archive existing-dir

[Matthieu Moy]

Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 18:51 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote:
>> Why does baz require that the destination directory of a make-archive
>> not already exist? We would like to have all employees mirror their
>> archives to a central location, but would prefer not to grant them write
>> access to the parent directory.
>
> both historical and useful reasons ;0. Its required this as long as I
> can recall - all the way from larch on up. You wouldn't want to
> intermingle an archive with (say) a 

I've just committed a patch to allow empty directories to be specified
for make-archive. So, it doesn't allow intermingling, but it won't
complain if you do

  mkdir archive
  baz make-archive address@hidden archive

(in the case of Stuart, the "mkdir" step can be done by the admin, and
the "make-archive" by the user)

-- 
Matthieu