Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular

[David Allouche]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:07:02PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 21:25, David Allouche wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:36:49PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > 
> > > configs are the Right Way to do this. (For more than tla - for CVS, svn
> > > and more).
> > 
> > For all that it's worth, some people also seem to express a desire to
> > have some "alias" scheme as a user convenience. For example, have DEVO
> > be the current main development branch (aka. HEAD in CVS), which may
> > resolve to a different version over time. Or have "frob-4.2-epsilon-7"
> > resolve to "frob--4.2.5.7".
> 
> Yeuck. Configs /are/ such an alias scheme. And it's global in scope by
> nature.

Well... maybe actually you can do that with config. I know very little
about those beasts. So maybe my "convenience alias" scheme is just
useless.

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