Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] apply-delta target directory

[Aaron Bentley]

David Allouche wrote:

> Let me rephrase: "in any case using non-Arch trees for computing
> changesets does not make sense in Arch as I understand it".

Changesets are just fancy diffs.  It's quite reasonable to use them any 
way that diffs are used.

> I think "apply-changeset" fits the description of "the
> changeset-applying function" pretty well.

Sorry for the tautology.

> For architectural reasons, I can understand why the internal function
> might want to know nothing about patchlogs, but still I do not
> understand why the apply-changeset CLI (or any other incarnation of
> changeset-applying functions) should silently allow such behaviour.

Well, changesets have almost nothing to do with project tree structure. 
 They take advice from the inventory control files (=tagging-method, 
.arch-inventory, .arch-id) if present, and that's pretty well it.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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Panometrics, Inc.