Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE-REQUEST] `make-archive' and existing directories

[Thomas Lord]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I think I understand your point.  OTOH, I'd rather say "what is
> _possibly_ the wrong location", assuming the user is aware of what
> they're doing.
>
> As mentioned by Sylvain in the Savannah bug report, one possibility
> would be to simply create an archive _within_ the directory at hand,
> instead of _at_ this directory, but this would look inconsistent with
> former practice at Savannah.  So, yes, this can be seen as a pure
> Savannah problem, not a `tla' one.
>
>   

Creating an archive within the directory is the right thing to do.
That allows projects to divide up materials along logical boundaries
into separate archives.   It simplifies access protection management.
And it supports, for long lived projects, "archive rotation".


> OTOH, ...
>
> Oh, well, we could argue at length about this but it's not so important
> after all.  Maybe a `--really' option would yield consensus?  ;-)
>   

I'm sorry to be such a pill but that strikes me as the kind of "just 
this once?"
little feature that leads to madness.... oh wait.... the smiley.   
You're joking.
Sorry.

-t