Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How to rename a category?

[John A Meinel]

Michaeljohn Clement wrote:
> I have a category, let's call it "foo," which is used for a project 
> which was called "foo" for a very brief period early in development.  
> Shortly after, the project was given a proper name, "bar."  The name 
> "foo" is now attached to a somewhat different project, and I now want to 
> create a "foo" category in the archive for this new project.  Of course 
> there already is a "foo" category, but it contains a project which is 
> now actually called "bar."
>
> So, I would like to rename the category "foo" to "bar," and then create 
> a new category "foo."  How can I do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Michaeljohn

I don't believe you can create a new category with the same name as an 
old one in the same archive. However, updating foo to bar is as simple as:

tla tag -S foo--branch--1.0 bar--branch--1.0

(With appropriate values for branch and the version number).


archive/category--branch--version--revision is meant to be a namespace, 
such that it uniquely identifies a set of source files and their state. 
Which is why you can't rename any of them.

You can re-use them, though.

For instance you could have

archive/foo--original--0
and
archive/foo--thenewstuff--0

etc.

If you absolutely must have the new project use the category name of 
foo, there is the possibility of changing history, but that is one of 
those very risky things to do in arch.

John
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