[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Creating and joining branches...

[Miles Bader]

Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
>> I wouldn't mind having a more streamlined approach for this.  The best
>> way I can think of to do it is something like:
>> 
>> $ tla apply-delta project--branch-apple--0--patch-123 
>> project--branch-cheese--0--patch-345
>> $ tla set-tree-version project--branch-cheese--0
>
> Yeah, the aba change-version script is essentially what you wrote above. 

And the `tla-switch' script in tla-tools.  :-)

>   In Fai, you can do "fai update project--branch-cheese--0"

This is worrying, because `tla update project--branch-cheese--0' does
something quite different (and very useful in its own right).  tla's
interpretation is quite consistent with the way other commands in tla
work when given a version argument, so I think it's arguably a good one.

I don't know what your goals are for fai, but it seems like avoiding
pointless incompatibilities with identically-named commands in tla would
be a good one...

-Miles
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