Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 21:25, David Allouche wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:36:49PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > 
> > configs are the Right Way to do this. (For more than tla - for CVS, svn
> > and more).
> 
> 
> For all that it's worth, some people also seem to express a desire to
> have some "alias" scheme as a user convenience. For example, have DEVO
> be the current main development branch (aka. HEAD in CVS), which may
> resolve to a different version over time. Or have "frob-4.2-epsilon-7"
> resolve to "frob--4.2.5.7".
> 
> Of course, such a convenience feature needs _no_ support inside tla. You
> can just implement a prototype using "aba" for the front-end and the
> "archive-metada" branch I have been discussing (w/o raising much
> interest it seems) to store the bindings.

Yeuck. Configs /are/ such an alias scheme. And it's global in scope by
nature.

Rob
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