[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla takes backup of logfile as commit logfile

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:24:34AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Lionel Elie Mamane <address@hidden> writes:

>> He reports that the problem now completely and spontaneously
>> disappeared. Maybe the nightly backup did a miracle?

> That makes it sound more likely to be confusion about the
> circumstances of the "bug".  For instance, maybe the reporter
> thought there were only backup log files in that directory, but for
> whatever reason there happened to be a real one too

He reproduced it in front of me:

ls #see, only backup?
tla commit #takes backup as log
rm *~
tla commit #OK, asks for a log, put something
tla commit #doesn't ask for a log, commits the (empty template) from
           #editor backup.


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Lionel