Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 04:18, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> * Dustin Sallings <address@hidden> [Oct 18, 2004 20:10]:
> > Because if it's off-limits, it shouldn't be visible to the point of
> > matching my globs when I'm trying to look through my source tree.
> 
> Precisely why you shouldn't be globbing from the shell when using tla.
> That's what 'tla inventory' is for,

tla inventory would be perfect (in my mind) if it were a globbing
tool that could work outside the tree. Otherwise, for example when
I create semi-symlink farms (some dirs symlinked, some built,
some with their contents "randomly" symlinks/ built files),
I end up having to use my own globs anyway.

Bearing in mind that my "build" directory is a subdirectory of
my project tree, albeit not tla add'ed. So tla inventory can
walk the parents to find the globbing rules.

But I was retorted with "tla inventory only works in a proper
tree" or something.

It would be particularly useful if tla inventory behaved more
generally, working with whatever set of files (eg. my build dir)
that I give it.

In addition this would lower another barrier to entry (for those
used to such generic functionality from bitkeeper).

I don't understand the resistance to this one, except that it is
perhaps a case of "it's not insubstantial effort, so show us the
code", which would be an acceptable response. But that wasn't the
response I got last time I brought up this issue.