Re: [Gnu-arch-users] library or revisions ??!!!

[Aaron Bentley]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Perhaps I am going to be crazy but when I do the commands :
>
> tla make-archive address@hidden /var/arch/archives/2004--01
> mkdir /var/arch/library && tla my-revision-library --add !$
> tla my-default-archive address@hidden   
> tla archive-setup ungi-print-server--principale--1.4
>
> cd /var/arch/projets/ungips
> tla init-tree ungi-print-server--principale--1.4
> tla tree-lint -t |tla add
> tla import --setup
> vi `tla make-log`
>
> on one server and do the same on other server2
>
> I'v got
> ----------------------
>
> %tla get 
> address@hidden/ungi-print-server--principale--1.4--bbase-0 
> ungips
>
>
> :~/arch/projets % tla get 
> address@hidden/ungi-print-server--principale--1.4--base-0< 
> ungips
>
> * from revision library: 
> address@hidden/ungi-print-server--principale--1.4--base-0<

This isn't right.  It should say "auto-adding to greedy revision 
library".  Instead, it already has the revision in the library.  But you 
just created the revision.  Therefore, the library must have a different 
revision with the same name.  This is impossible unless you've been 
manually fiddling with the files in your archive, e.g. deleting revisions.

If you delete revisions, or recreate an archive with the same archive 
name and version name, you are changing history.  This is not supported 
by Arch, and even experienced users get it wrong.  It's far, far easier 
to use a different version name (or number) than to get it right when 
changing history.

If you must change history, you must systematically eradicate all traces 
of the previous timeline, including:

- library revisions
- project trees
- the revisions in the archive itself.
- the revisions in any mirrors that other people have made of your archive

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.