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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tagline considered harmful?
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tagline considered harmful? |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:47:35 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Maksim Lin <address@hidden>
> Having read in the tla docs that tagline is the recommended tagging
> method, I'm wondering what the compelling reasons for using it are?
> From my point of view it seesm quite limiting in that:
> - It won't work with binary files [....]
> - It won't work for things like xml-type documents that are produced by
> many 3rd party apps [...]
> - It makes it very easy (though admittedly not epecially likely) for
> anyone editing the file to accidently stuff up the tagline
> - It means that I need some mechanism to come up with unique taglines
> [....]
> Against all this I see almost no disadvantages to using the explicit
> method [...]
Then use explicit.
> except for the small
> inconvienience of having to remember to do 'tla add ...' and as a
> perforce user (at work) I've pretty much learnt to do that as par for
> the course.
> So am I missing something about using taglines?
And you'll have to use `tla move', etc. If you're used to that in
your work habits, good for you. Some of us despise it.
-t
- [Gnu-arch-users] tagline considered harmful?, Maksim Lin, 2003/08/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tagline considered harmful?, Miles Bader, 2003/08/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tagline considered harmful?,
Tom Lord <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?, Stig Brautaset, 2003/08/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?, Ethan Benson, 2003/08/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?, Jan Hudec, 2003/08/25
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?, Miles Bader, 2003/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?, Jan Hudec, 2003/08/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?, Tom Lord, 2003/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?, Miles Bader, 2003/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?, Jan Hudec, 2003/08/27