Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tag --seal - where does version-0 go?

[David Allouche]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 15:40 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> I think (and this is kinda confirmed by what I've just been told on IRC) it
> helps to think of tag --seal and --fix are a sort of "commit into other
> tree" type thing.  You can do a tla commit --seal on your local tree, and
> it'll seal the branch underlying that tree, or you can tla tag --seal src
> dest to seal the dest branch.  But you can't seal a branch that doesn't
> exist -- hence the problem of getting a base-0 when you asked for --seal on
> a new branch.

I found this thread very confused, and I am not sure what you are
talking about. However, it seems that you should have read this page:

http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Sealing_20and_20fixing

> Good sigmonster.  Maybe Arch is just mathematics.

Arch is pretty much mathematics oriented. There is still no good and
comprehensive formalism, but most of the foundation is algebra:
changesets are functions on trees, patch-logs form partially ordered
sets, etc.

BTW, what is a sigmonster?

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