[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Design proposal to kill pristine trees

[Miles Bader]

BTW, one small note:  these paths should be newline-separated (not
colon-separated as I was suggesting before).  That allows tla to use the
hackerlab reltable functions to read/manipulate them easily, and they're even
more natural for shell-scripts to emit (many times you could just use a
series of `test ... && echo foo' type lines).

For instance, a `backward compatible scheme,' which stores pristines under
{arch} like the current tla could use a script like:

   #!/bin/sh
   echo {arch}/++pristines
   if test "$HOME/.arch-params/=revision-library"; then
     cat "$HOME/.arch-params/=revision-library"
   fi

-miles
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