Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Mirrors and remote repositories...

[Tom Lord]

    > From: The Doctor What <address@hidden>

    > I'm just putzing with tla/arch still, so excuse any stupidities.

    > I use BK at work, and I'm confused by the remote mirror vs. remote
    > repositories.  I have a remote repository set up (it was cool, I
    > don't have tla installed on my server, but it created everything
    > fine.) and I'm working with it locally.

    > However, I'm using a laptop, so I want disconnected operation, where
    > I can "store up" changesets to push up later.  How do I do this?
    > The docs I'm reading say that a mirror is readonly.  Am I reading
    > something wrong?

Every archive has a home, somewhere, that is read/write.   I gather
that in your case, you made that home on your archive.

The usual solution for your laptop is: start a new archive whose home
is on your laptop.   Populate the new archive with branches of the
things you want to work on in disconnected mode.   Almost certainly
you'll be happy using the `star-merge' command to sync back and forth
between the laptop and server branches.


    > Also: I'm a little unclear... Does tla not offer an oportunity to
    > commit single files outside a changeset, like BK?  I liked that
    > behaviour since I could make tonnes of small changes and they'd all
    > be documented with change comments, then I could send them all as
    > one large changeset with really well documented changes.

There's ways to approximate that functionality and so forth but -- 

How is what you describe substantially more useful than simply
editting a log message as you go?  It's a serious question -- not
rhetorical: the feature of BK that you mention is one I find
interesting.

-t