Re: [Gnu-arch-users] branching in shell arch vs. tla question (PLEASE!)

[Robert Anderson]

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From: ""Angles" Puglisi" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] branching in shell arch vs. tla
question (PLEASE!)

>Please I beg of you for an answer. If I am ignorant please say
so, if not I'm
>having trouble understanding this issue: (sorry... with the new
release I fear
>my question will go unnoticed. I have looked at the documents
several times at
>least, the "Alice" tag branch, etc...)
>
>Angles Puglisi (address@hidden) wrote:
>>
>> Back in the day with shell "arch", commit --continuation did
not work so we
>> had to use a hack were we did an "arch get" of the revision we
wanted to make
>> a new branch out of, then created the full name for the branch
and imported.
>> With further tricks such as a trivial replay between these
branches, they got
>> "patch log aware" of each other and we could then star-merge
between them.
>>
>> Now, with tla, the preferred branch method is "tag", the only
example of tag
>> used to make a branch in the tutorial is for "Alice" making a
branch of a
>> non-local archive. I'm using only local archives and local
working dirs, and I
>> want to make a branch and have a whole tree working directory
to play with and
>> commit to said branch. How do I do this now? Tag seems to
operate on the
>> "archive" level and not giving me a new source tree working
directory
>> identifiable as that branch.
>>
>> Sorry if I have missed something obvious. Thanks.

You are correct that "tag" creates a revision in an archive.  You
get a local working copy using the "get" command in the usual way.

So, the sequence is:

tla archive-setup ...
tla tag ...
tla get ...

Voila.   Hack and commit as usual.

Bob