Re: [Gnu-arch-users] why does tla undo perform a tree-lint?

[Thomas Lord]

    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>

    >>> I'm just wondering why 'tla undo' performs a tree-lint prior to
    >>> doing the actual undo?
    >> It needs to create a changeset for 'tla redo'.  Changesets require a
    >> proper tree; hence, deleting files requires IDs for those files.
    > Also, undo works by producing and applying a changeset, but changesets 
    > should never contain non-source files.

    > It bugs me too.  I have a script that deletes all conflict files and 
    > then runs undo.

So, the output conventions of `patch(1)' were clearly designed while
thinking mostly about the case of applying a patch to a single file,
and applying one patch and then cleaning up before applying a second
patch.

A good (longer term, yet very good) way to improve arch would be to
give attention to `patch(1)', in light of `tla dopatch' and the way
the latter is used.

-t