Re: [Gnu-arch-users] moving an archive

[Alexander Deruwe]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:47:27AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:

[...]

> AFAIK it *does* require access to the original archive. When you tag a
> category into a new archive, you're creating the equivalent of a
> symbolic link, *not* moving the data. If you delete the old archive, you
> lose all your work.
> 
> It would be nice to have a clean way to really move a category to a new
> archive though.

If you archive-cache the base-0 revision after tagging, you won't need
access to the old archive anymore.

Alexander