Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Graphical merges

[Aaron Bentley]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > No, he was proposing munging the trees so that the filenames in ANCESTOR and
> > HIS correspond with those in TREE.  My own thought was that tla could output
> > a list of which files correspond.
>
>
> But you still need the external tool to know
> - how to traverse the trees,

The same way as find does.

> - where to put the result of the merge of each file

In TREE/$filename

> - how to report errors

That's not tla-specific, it's tool specific.  In some cases, it will pop 
up a GTK dialog box, in other cases, it will output to the console, etc.

> - how to tell tla that the merge added

File is present that didn't used to be

/deleted/

File is absent that used to be present

moved some files

Not detected, not necessary to detect.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
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Panometrics, Inc.