Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE REQUEST] unify various commands around arch_fqvsn_from_tree_and_input

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 09:34, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> Unfortunately, you've introduced an ambiguity.  It used to be that valid 
> revision names were always treated as revisions by delta.  Now, valid 
> revision names are not treated as revisions if there is a directory in 
> the cwd with that name.

True...

> Thus, "tla delta tla--mainline--1.3--patch-9 
> address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3" is an ambigious statement; do the 
> arguments refer to directories or to revision names?  (And sadly, 
> "tla--mainline--1.3--patch-9" is the default directory name produced by 
> tla get)

This is pretty easy to fix - just add a check for a valid revision
before the dir test.  It's kind of a special case for delta.

> I've merged your patches into my errors branch, 

Er, I wish you hadn't done that, at least without asking me - you've
broken the star-shaped configuration.

> and added the ability 
> for arch_fqvsn_from_tree_and_input to determine a revision from a
> version:
> address@hidden/tlasrc--errors--3--patch-15

Do you need to update your mirror?  I only see patch-12.

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