Sylvain Beucler wrote:
>
You misunderstand. Subdirs are the right way to use Arch, regardless of
context.
Savannah projects that use arch should plan for multiple archives.
E.g., what
if in addition to the project's main archive, they want to mirror the
archive
of a major contributor or friendly fork there?
Yes, this is how I am using Savannah's storage space for my new projects hosted in Savannah...
> Anyway it has always bugged me that tla refuses to create an archive
> in an empty directory, so I'd vote for including Ludovic's patch :)
>
>
Alas, Ludovic's patch does not implement "permit creating an archive in an
empty directory" it implements "permit creating an archive in an existing
directory."
I think "...in an empty directory" would be bloat and would mess up a
small number of users but I could at least see in argument in favor of it.
In contrast, "...in an existing directory" turns typos into
annoying-to-recover-from
errors.
-t
In light of the previous comments in this thread, would Ludovic mind to modify the patch so it only creates an archive in an empty directory... or I will modify it to make tla to create the archive only if the preexisting directory is empty.
Thanks for Ludovic's contributions and the Savannah hackers' work in supporting Arch usage in Savannah!