Re: [Gnu-arch-users] =partner-versions

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:16:30PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Mattieu Moy (one of the xtla authors) and I have been discussing a 
> common standard for describing partner-versions; related trees that are 
> suitable for merging with.  Here's what we've come up with:
> 
> {arch}/=partner-versions is a file that contains one or more 
> partner-versions.  It contains one or more fully-qualified version 
> names, separated by newlines.  This listing may contain the tree-version.

What exactly is the usage of this?

My `tla-partner' script uses the file {arch}/+partner to describe a `partner
version', so you can say e.g. `tla-partner star-merge -t'.  This is very
useful.  But how would you use multiple versions?  [I understand that there
may well be multiple partner versions that are interesting, I'm just not
sure how tools should deal with the presence of more than one.]

> Questions:
> Q: Why a source file?  Why may it include the tree-version?
> A: To make it easier for several people to collaborate on a project, 
> using a common list of partner-versions.  It might make sense to allow 
> for a precious variant as well.

I'm not sure about this.  When I made tla-partner, I considered both, and it
wasn't very clear to me which is `proper'.  Probably having both is good.

-Miles
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