[Gnu-arch-users] Re: robin's per-directory regexps

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Robert Collins <address@hidden>

    > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 07:47, Tom Lord wrote:

    > > If using `explicit'.   Otherwise a name tag is used.

    > Doesn't that fall back to the not-supporting tree delta problem?

There's an important difference.  If .arch-inventory merely _defaults_
to a names tag in tagline method, you still _can_ tag it properly and
have tree-deltas work.  But if .arch-inventory _always_ has a names
tag, no matter what you do, then you can not get it to work properly
with tree-deltas.

Taking out the mandatory-names-tag for .arch-inventory just means it
works like any ordinary source file.



    > > And if explicit is used, untagged source is a hard (commit preventing)
    > > error.  So there's no need for a special tree-lint case, is there?

    > untagged-source precious overrides this - and most users of explicit
    > whose configuration I know, are using untagged-source precious.

Ah, yes.  I suspected I was stupidly forgetting something.  But that
should be the fix then:  the untagged-source directive should not
apply to control files.   (.arch-inventory is the first control file
where that will make a difference, but it's a general principle.)

-t