Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory

[Miles Bader]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06:51:03PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >Exactly.  I'd even argue that when a full inventory is necessary, tla
> >should simply signal an error to the effect of "the change you're trying to
> >commit is not restricted to the set of files/dirs you specified".
> 
> Well, but it should be possible to add or delete files with a limited 
> commit.  Some people would even want to allow renames, I'd expect.

I certainly do.

It drives me nuts having to do weird contortions to work around the the
current restrictions on limited commit...  it happens quite often too.

A simple "do a limited inventory if you can get away with it, but quickly
fall back to a full inventory if things seems confusing" behavior (by tla,
not the user) seems right to me....

-Miles
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