Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch on windows?

[John Meinel]

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Well, one thing is that we aren't asking for a change in the archive
format. That is a hard sell because that is actively shared among
different people, and that breaks compatibility. What we are asking for
is a local change to a working directory. And if necessary, only on
win32. To me that's a much smaller request, which should make it more
palatable.

I'm wondering if we just switched to
c/b/v/p-nn and
c/v/p-nn
If there would be a lot of problem? If I have to give a special case
(such as =null), then we might as well make the special case be the
truly empty directory. IIRC, branches can't have a '.' in them, and
versions can't have anything but [0-9.] in them. And when I just tried
it wouldn't let me create cat--0--0, I'm guessing there is a restriction
on branches that forces them to have a letter.
So c/b/v/p-nn should be trivially separable from c/v/p-nn.

John
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Stig Brautaset wrote:

| On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:08:01AM +0100, Adam Sampson wrote:
|
|>John Meinel <address@hidden> writes:
|>
|>
|>>So if all we do is switch from {arch}/c/c--b/c--b--v/c--b--v--p-nn.* to
|>>{arch}/c/--b/--v/--p-nn.* (I'm leaving in the -- because 'b' can be
|>>empty) we'll probably have a 75% solution.
|>
|>I think I'd prefer {arch}/c--/b--/v--/p-nn.* -- filenames starting
|>with "--" have the potential to irritate people even more than those
|>starting with "{".
|
|
| How about just c/b/v/p-nn with "=null" in place of branch if it is
| empty? It has been suggested before (not by me). I guess it means you
| have to use a special case though.
|
| Anyway, I don't see Tom agreeing to such a change anytime soon... :)
|
| Stig
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