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

[John S. Yates, Jr.]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> >
> > Creating a new directory and sticking some contents in it mean that
> > there's no possibility of reusing the name in the future.
>
> Only if someone else catches you :-) Otherwise rm -rf'ing it and
> removing any left-overs from the revision library works pretty well
> (even if changing history isn't officially encouraged).

There is a difference between changing history and undoing a mistake.
Arch archives are not autonomously collected chronologies.  They grow
at user initiated points.  Thus an undo is somewhat meaningful.  That
being said it would seem to entail significant issues with caching,
mirroring, etc.

/john