[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla configurations and recursive commands.

[John F Meinel Jr]

> I think a new "tlaconfig" program would be in order.
> It would behave "like tla" except it would consider a config similarly to
> a (large) tree.
>
> I have a few minor local changes to tla and find it very inconvenient to
> maintain them because I have to use the `tla inventory --trees' stuff all
> the time and that doesn't react to changes to the config (so I stayed at
> 1.2 for a while).
>
>
>        Stefan
>  
Personally, I wrote a python script. It basically just recurses through 
the directories and calls tla with the supplied arguments whenever it 
finds an {arch} directory. It is a little bit smart so that it doesn't 
run in directories that are likely to be bad (sub-dirs of a ,,get*, or 
,,commit*).
The one thing this handles that configs don't is if you add directories 
that aren't in the config. You can argue whether this is good or bad, 
but it's what I do.
It works well for changes, and possibly commit, and certainly replay. I 
haven't really tried it with anything else (like branching or star-merge.)
I'm starting to switch over to aba, though, since it supports a little 
bit more. So maybe there needs to be an "aba recurse" command or maybe 
just "aba apply-to-config".
John
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