From: Paolo Donadeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1) I have complex projects to manage, with many independent sub-projects interacting each other. The idea is to use the "Multi-tree Projects" feature as explained by mr. Lord, but I found it's explanation quite obscure.
Does exists some other documentation about these features? [...] Sorry about that. It's one of those "initially hard to get but once you get it it's very simple" things and resource constraints and external factors have never given time to really document things very well. The wiki and irc, however, have proven to be very effective (albeit not ideal) documentation for serious-minded adopters (afaict). 2) A typical scenario here is this: many developers writes code and, after a period of time, the code needs to be refactored. Tla of course has the "mv" and "move" commands, but can I move files (very important) and directories (not so important) across categories, in the multi tree scenario described before, preserving the history of changes? Thanks in advance for your support. You'll get various good perspectives on that question. Here's my attempt: Don't worry quite that much about preserving history in that circumstance -- even under a system that did it absolutely perfectly the cost of using that capability would normally exceed the value returned. Arch is a little deceiving in that sense, at first glance: it makes such fantastic use of history that one just wants to keep that going but, back in reality -- don't fetishize that: it's not that important, usually. If you have a complex development process that involves that kind of refactoring /and/ you want to use multiple categories -- the easiest route is to throw some "sync points" into your process where everyone has to catch up with the refactoring. Failing that, you can do lots of neat tricks by preserving the file's inventory tag across the category rename but, imo, you need a really good reason to bother fussing with such tricks. -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
