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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability


From: James Blackwell
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:52:22 -0400

Jani Monoses wrote:
> Not necessarily IMHO. From what I see some functionality will never make into
> tla core because it is easy to do by scripting around what tla already
> provides. The problem is not that a 'silly pipe' has to be constructed or even
> a few lines of bash to get something done, but the fact that this has to be
> done many times by new users who are overwhelmed by tla and try to
> (ironically) keep complexity and stuff to remember down by not installing aba,
> tla-cvs-tools, pyarch etc.
> It would all be simpler for newcomers to have such a wrapper-set bundled with
> tla.

Using that logic, wouldn't we turn "tla undo" back into a script merely
because its easily scriptable?

mv workdir ,,oldworkdir ; tla get VERSION


 From the volume of requests, the capability to undo specific
files is an expected version of a revision control system.

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