[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla import versus tla commit

[Miles Bader]

Jani Monoses <address@hidden> writes:
> Aside from incompatibility what would be the disadvantages of
> representing an import as a changeset against an empty tree?

A really nice property of the arch archive format is that it's almost
exactly "what a human would use" if he were doing it manually.  Part of
this is storing imports as a simple tarball of the source tree.

-Miles
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