Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory

[Dustin Sallings]

On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 10:00 US/Pacific, Robert Anderson wrote:

> This really needs to be in the tutorial, as I think it may be the #1
> FAQ.
>
> In general 'tla inventory' replaces 'find' as your tool for working 
> with
> your source trees.
>
> tla inventory is a special-purpose find for your source tree.  Think of
> it as a "find" with a whole bunch of rules particular to your source
> tree, defined by you as your naming conventions.

	I couldn't figure out how to make ``tla inventory'' give me a list of 
all files and directories that did not have tags but I wanted to have 
tags (i.e. during initial import).  Specifically, it would not do so 
and recurse.  I'm sure I tried every variety of options.

> >         Also, when I want to edit something in there, it's slightly less
> > convenient for me to type, ``vi ./\<shift>{[tab]'' than ``vi 
> > ./.a[tab]''
>
> Broken shell.  Which ?

	tcsh, which is not broken, I just don't trust it to do what I mean if 
I say ``vi {[tab]''  It does seem to escape it properly and all that, 
but since { is a special character, I usually escape it myself.

> >         User visibility I don't think is as important.  I know what stuff is
> > handled by arch because I keep my sources in a tree I can manage.
>
> It becomes a lot more important as visual tree-root cue when you start
> working with configurations.

	Well, on one hand, I don't believe the visual cue is important, but on 
the other hand, it's inconsistent.  This is my point:

dustin2wti:/tmp/temp/manual 585% ls -l "{arch}"
ls: {arch}: No such file or directory
dustin2wti:/tmp/temp/manual 586% tla tree-version
address@hidden/temp--temp--0.1

        There's no visual cue, but the directory is handled by arch.

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Dustin Sallings