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

[Zenaan Harkness]

> > However, I did not understand the error message "illegal revision
> > name", even after reading the tutorial and the on-line help.  
> 
> The patch-level terminology is diagrammed here:
> http://regexps.srparish.net/tutorial-tla/retrieving-earlier-revisions.html
> 
> The term "fully-qualified revision name" is described here:
> http://regexps.srparish.net/tutorial-tla/shared-and-public-archives.html
> 
> > Thus I stand by my suggestion that the error message be improved.
> 
> The corrected version would be "not a valid revision name", which isn't 
> very different from "illegal revision name".
> 
> I don't understand why you prefer an error message to having it just 
> work.  "tla changes patch-3" is a much more convenient way of expressing 
> the command, and its intent is quite clear.

I think you misunderstood his comment - he's implying (AIUI) "short of
having a solution/patch available now, the error message would be better
changed". Which I'd agree with.

> If you think that error's bad, what about this?
> tla add-id .arch-ids
> tla tree-lint
> error finding file id (21: Is a directory)
>   path: ./.arch-ids/.arch-ids
> PANIC: arch_inventory_id

:)