Re: [Gnu-arch-users] migrating projects

[Robert Anderson]

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:36, Zack Brown wrote:
> 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?

The number of categories is the number of categories.  If he wants to
filter what gets shown: man grep.

Bob