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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch
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Andrea Arcangeli |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch |
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Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:28:30 +0200 |
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:56:39PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Distributing files together with their extended attributes, a resource
> fork or other ways to transparently store metadate is rather painful.
> Ask any MacOS user. 8-/
I believe it enterely depends how it's used. But certainly you're right
it can create confusion in terms of backups.
> You can either preserve the metadata, or you can make the file contents
> accessible to traditional users. Both things at the same time don't
> work.
The idea here is that no metadata would need to be preserved except for
backups of the working dir (note: not backups of the archive where the
patchsets are stored, and the archive is the real thing that matters,
the working dir is more a temporary thing, the archive is the real
database).
I'm not actually advocating the multiple channels for metadata in the
kernel, I was mostly making an example of how you could cleanly split
the arch metadata from the data, while at the same time to be still able
to avoid running add-tag etc...
However again, I'm fine that taglines are available too, so I only need
explicit mode to be safer (because explicit obviously it can be
implemented mathematically *safer*) and more transparent than the
tagline. Since I need to use "explicit" for the strict commit, I would
only lose the math safety guarantee by using tagline. I see only
disavantages in tagline vs explicit, if you need strict commit like I
do.
Andrea - If you prefer relying on open source software, check these links:
rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.[45]/
http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager (was: the infinite thread), (continued)
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager (was: the infinite thread), Davide Libenzi, 2003/09/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrew Suffield, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Paul Hedderly, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, David Brown, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Collins, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Florian Weimer, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch,
Andrea Arcangeli <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robin Farine, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, David Brown, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, David Brown, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/28
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/29