Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Documentation?

[Aaron Bentley]

Martin Olsen wrote:
> Adrien Beau wrote:
>
> What i'm really a bit fussy about, is this whole changeset concept. Is a 
> changeset no more than a patch that you run locally? If so, how are 
> dependencies among different patch'es calculated (does a changeset 
> contain depencies themself? )  

No, dependencies aren't tracked that way.

When producing a revision, tla will get a complete earlier revision, 
then apply any descendant patches required to transform the earlier 
revision into the requested revision.  In a sense, you could say each 
patch depends on all its ancestors.

I *have* written a script to detect the textual dependencies of a 
revision, but detecting the logical dependencies would require tla to 
parse the programming language in question.  The script is rev-deps, 
part of the aba wrapper, in

address@hidden/tlacontrib--devo--1.3
http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net/address@hidden/

> How are a changeset distributed to other 
> users?
>
> Also I haven't really grasped the starmerge thing.

Roughly speaking, star-merge is just an automated form of "apply-delta 
foo bar" or "cvs update -j foo -j bar".

The automation and complication is just the way it picks foo based on 
bar and the current tree version.  (It also supports --three-way, but 
there's no theoretical reason apply-delta couldn't)

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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Panometrics, Inc.