Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases

[Tom Lord]

Is this something you want to code up or just an idle thought?

I.e., is it worth explaining how to go about implementing it?

-t




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    > 
    > I'm sure this has been brought before, but I think it's worth thinking
    > about it some more: tla should offer some way to refer to specific 
versions
    > using shorthands.
    > 
    > In my most important use case, it seems important that such aliases not be
    > user-global but be per-project, so I can refer to the `main' branch
    > and have it refer to the main Emacs branch when I'm in an Emacs tree
    > and to the main Tla branch when I'm in a Tla tree.
    > So they should probably be stored somewhere under {arch}.
    > 
    > The main use is for things like
    > 
    >     tla changes main
    > 
    > to get the changes w.r.t some `main' branch.  Or
    > 
    >     tla star-merge --three-way miles
    > 
    > to merge changes from miles's branch.  Fancy completion makes the long
    > names just bearable, but it only works when I run those things from
    > a properly configured shell, but not when I have to enter those names
    > in a VC prompt for example.
    > 
    > 
    >         Stefan
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