Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla changes --diffs question

[John Meinel]

Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:04:33AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
>
> . . .
>
> > because it allows tla 1.2 write in 1.2.1 repositories even though in
> > 1.2.1 files are no longer all considered binary and CR LF is
> >    modified on commit to LF.
>
> . . .
>
> > Another small problem that I noticed is that tla 1.2 can't access
> > 1.2.1 archives completely,
>
>
> I think there's a misunderstanding here.  I've been scratching my head
> reading this thread because I seemed to be getting mixed messages.

I think what has happened is that andreif has used 1.2.1, and so far it 
is still working for him. When he tried to go back to 1.2, it failed, so 
he decided to stay with 1.2.1.

I'm warning him that 1.2.1 has a critical bug in it that results in a 
corrupted archive. And while for right now he might be getting away with 
it as long as he uses 1.2.1, it will probably bite him in the end.

However, Lode just posted that he added the "--binary" flag to diff, so 
the latest tla-cygwin-1.2.1 (as in posted today Nov 8) probably has this 
bug fixed. I haven't had time to try it out to confirm this, though.

But yes, I would say don't use the *old* 1.2.1, but the new one might be 
okay. I would certainly recommend that you switch over to it as soon as 
possible.

I'm not sure if this will expose some corruption in your archive, 
though. If so, I can think of 1 or 2 dirty little tricks to get your 
archive corrected, but the easiest one might just be to start over with 
a new archive.

John
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