[Gnu-arch-users] tla-short paths

[John A Meinel]

After the latest questions about the status of tla-cygwin, I decided to 
go back and look at Ron Parker's tree.

I found that he had a new branch called
devo.tla--short-path

I'm assuming that this is a branch which uses c/b/v style names instead 
of c/c--b/c--b--v style.

I saw that it was created 2004-07, and modified until 2004-08, and I was 
wondering what the current status was. I'm in the process of building it 
in the background, and I'll go ahead and test it (at least with a dummy 
archive first).

But I was wondering if it was completed, or what the current state of it 
was.

It does seem to be the last changes made to the address@hidden 
branch, but I might be missing some archive.

I believe it is branched off the old 
address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3--patch-28

Which I have no idea how this old branch falls in the grand hierarchy of 
things. At one point it was where development was going, but I'm pretty 
sure that things got moved all over the place after the 1.2.2 branch, 
and the new style of commit branches.

I'm a little interested in picking up dev on this, since I feel it would 
be nice to get something like this working.

I was able to build it, and I did see that I could init-tree 
--short-path, and even import it, and the checkout looked correct on 
another machine. However, when I did a 'get' later, I had lots of 
problems. First, my greedy revlib did not use short-paths and died. When 
I added --no-greedy-add it was able to build a pristine, but it didn't 
set the +short-path flag, and all the paths were again very long (it was 
able to do the checkout, but failed after that.)

I didn't see a flag for tla get --short-path, but it would seem that the 
basic framework exists, and it might just be a matter of extending it to 
more cases.

I don't know why development has stalled, though. So before I pick it 
up, it would be nice to know where and why it was left.

John
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