Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: taglines vs explicit

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
    > > Somewhere in the introductory docs, maybe the old home page, a remark
    > > is made that any tarball of an arch project would be an arch workspace
    > > when untarred.  So this possibility has been considered a feature at
    > > least as long as I've been following arch.

    > Sure, it's a feature that it's _possible_ (that is, that {arch} is
    > basically location independent), but the question is whether it's usual
    > practice, and whether it should be recommended.

And, in fact, I've been considering not doing it in future releases.


    > Hmmm, if someone gets a tar file containing an {arch}, and wants to put it
    > into a local archive, what do they have to do?  Is `tla set-tree-version;
    > tla commit' enough (or should it be `import'?  I can never remember the
    > difference)?

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-t