Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions

[Aaron Bentley]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 08:44 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> > Jason McCarty wrote:
> >
> >
> > > The problem is that you tried to cacherev a revision that tla already
> > > made a cacherev for. This is a bug, see http://bugs.gnuarch.org/74 .
> > >
> > > Apparently you can uncacherev it and cacherev it again to fix it.
> >
> > Since I didn't want to tamper with the archive transaction 
> > functionality, I changed the cacherev UI so it refuses cacherev when 
> > there was already a cacherev.  That was merged into 1.2.2rc1 IIRC
>
>
> With an error? or just returns 0 (as the request, to have a cacherev,
> has been fulfilled )

With an error.  It would be deceptive to claim that a new cacherev had 
been installed if it hadn't.  For example, if you know your cacherev 
checksums are bogus but don't know you need to uncacherev, you might do 
cacherev, see no error output, and assume the problem is fixed.

It also saves people's time as they discover very quickly that they no 
longer need to explicitly cachrev when tagging from a different archive.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
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