Re: [Gnu-arch-users] migrating projects

[Zack Brown]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:26:55AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 00:00, Zack Brown wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Just create a whole new archive and give it the name of your project.
> > The whole archive is now your 'category' for that project. Now all the
> > categories you make within that will be your 'sub-categories'. So you
> > can have a 'lang' category, etc., and it won't mingle with categories
> > from any other project.
> 
> This is a bad idea, as the recent thread on linux-kernel-archiving
> demonstrated.
> 
> Do -not- use the archive name as a component of the logical identity of
> code.

You don't present any alternative. He wants to avoid having tons of category
names show up in his listings. I offered a way to do that, which works. Yes,
there are drawbacks. Can you show a better way to achieve what he wants?

Be well,
Zack

> 
> Rob
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Zack Brown