Re: [Gnu-arch-users] in-tree pristines fatally wounded (merge-fest etc)

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > Ah, finally ...

    > If you use these options with `tla get' will that somehow be remembered,
    > and reflected in future updates/replays?  If not, what happens?

updates and replays will break links of files the modify.

It has occured to me that perhaps we want a `link-sync' command or
similar to make a tree as close as possible to a link tree from a
given library revision.


    > What about using `--link' (short -l), like the cp command, instead of
    > `--hard-links'?  Besides the commonality, and the difference in length
    > [I don't think `hard' is a very important attribute to emphasize -- as
    > with cp and ln, symbolic links are the exception], there's the issue of
    > whether options are `descriptive' or `imperative' -- I find obviously
    > imperative options like `--link' a lot more natural (a similar case
    > occurs with `tla changes --diffs' -- I constantly find myself typing
    > --diff instead, despite having used that command zillions of times).

Personally, I have no particular opinion abou that.

-t