Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] FEATURE PLANS: relink

[David Allouche]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:22:20AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
>     > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>
> 
>     > Tom Lord wrote:
>     > > % tla relink
> 
>     > >   Attempt to ensure the existence of a library revision
>     > >   for the immediate ancestor of the current project tree.
> 
>     > >   Print a list of files modified, added, and deleted.
> 
>     > >   Attempt to ensure that all non-modified files are 
>     > >   hard-links to the library revision.
> 
>     > Since this seems to be just "tla changes --link", could you explain the 
>     > difference?
> 
> Heh.  Mostly it's that I forget `changes --link' exists but `relink'
> is intended to do something slightly different, anyway:  to not bother
> computing a full changeset between the two trees -- just the lists of
> deleted, added, and modified files.

(pyarch maintainer on)

So, what is the status of "changes --link", is it planned for
deprecation?

It feels like relinking should really be supported only as
arch.WorkingTree.relink and not at all as an option to
arch.WorkingTree.changes.

Requesting blessing.

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                                                            -- ddaa