Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE REQUEST] changeset translation preparatory work

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

    Stefan> Actually, some systems such as Emacs's VC package likes to
    Stefan> be able to find out the revision-control status of a file
    Stefan> without running any program (so it also works if `tla' is
    Stefan> not available).

    Stefan> Arch is really bad already in this regard since you can
    Stefan> pretty easily figure out the current branch, but you
    Stefan> generally can't tell whether a given file is
    Stefan> source/nonsource without running tla (unless you
    Stefan> reimplement this part of tla which is nontrivial).

What you're really saying is that tla gives you a lot more flexibility
in defining "source", right?

I guess my take is "if you're going to take advantage of that
flexibility, keep a copy of tla around".


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