Re: [Gnu-arch-users] caching revisions

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 09:28 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 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.

Heh, it also broke some scripts of mine, I hadn't gotten around to
debugging why. How do you feel about an option?

Rob

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