[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Newbie confusion "illegal revision name"

[Andrew Wilcox]

I wrote:
> As I learn arch, a few times I've tried to specify a revision, but
> didn't realize it needed to be fully qualified.
> ...
> A hint in the error message such as "not a valid fully qualified
> revision name" would be helpful.

Aaron Bentley replied:
> "patch-3" is a patchlevel, not a revision name of any kind.

I understand, though I will point out (as a new user to arch) that the
following did seem to suggest to me that these were revisions within
the version:

    $ tla revisions
    base-0
    patch-1
    patch-2
    patch-3

> So your proposed changes would be incorrect. 

I agree that I don't know what the correct wording is, as I'm new to
arch.

However, I did not understand the error message "illegal revision
name", even after reading the tutorial and the on-line help.  Thus I
stand by my suggestion that the error message be improved.

Thank you,

Andrew Wilcox