Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more)

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Scott Parish <address@hidden>

    > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:49:41PM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:

    > > In .arch-params/=aliases/ one will find files with names similiar to
    > > these: 

    > > name:             contains:
    > > blacky-rbrowse    address@hidden/tla--rbrowse--1.3
    > > tladevo           address@hidden/tla--devo
    > > lord              address@hidden
    > > oldlord           address@hidden

    > > This would allow things like "tla rbrowse lord", "tla get
    > > blacky-rbrowse" and "tla star-merge tladevo"

    > What's wrong with:

    > $ cat >> ~/.profile <<EOF
    > address@hidden/tla--rbrowse--1.3
    > address@hidden/tla--devo
    > address@hidden
    > address@hidden
    > EOF
    > $ source ~/.profile
    > $ tla rbrowse $lord
    > $ tla get $blacky_rbrowse
    > $ tla star-merge $tladevo

Not much except that, by doing it a little deeper (and per-project,
not just per-user), we can use the graph being described by these
aliases for other purposes (like visualization, queue monitoring,
fork/submit, etc.).

-t