[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Using Arch to track non-Arch upstreams

[John Goerzen]

"Mark A. Flacy" <address@hidden> writes:

> John> Arch doesn't have such a tool.  Moreover, I'd think that putting
> John> taglines in the source file would be a recipe for disaster.  When a
> John> file moves and you're using diffs or tarballs from upstream, there is
> John> essentially a delete of the old file and an add of the new -- and that
> John> doesn't preserve local changes.
>
> That's the problem that the use of taglines *solves*, much less be a
> "recipe for disaster".  It appears to me that you have a fundamental
> misunderstanding of taglines under tla/arch.

Well, how do taglines solve it then?  I've already explained why two
approaches won't work:

1. Relying on the taglines being in the source files themselves won't
work because renames in diffs delete the old file and create a new one
without the tagline.

2. Relying on the taglines being manipulated with tla add, etc. won't
work because the diff format is not expressive enough to communicate
what exactly needs to be done.

How are taglines a magic solution for this?  Remember, I said
*non-Arch* upstreams.