Re: [MERGE-REQUEST] `make-archive' and existing directories

On 9/12/06, Thomas Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> >
>
> You misunderstand.   Subdirs are the right way to use Arch, regardless of
> context.
> Savannah projects that use arch should plan for multiple archives.
> E.g., what
> if in addition to the project's main archive, they want to mirror the
> archive
> of a major contributor or friendly fork there?


Yes, this is how I am using Savannah's storage space for my new projects
hosted in Savannah...

> Anyway it has always bugged me that tla refuses to create an archive
> > in an empty directory, so I'd vote for including Ludovic's patch :)
> >
> >
>
> Alas, Ludovic's patch does not implement "permit creating an archive in an
> empty directory" it implements "permit creating an archive in an existing
> directory."
>
> I think "...in an empty directory" would be bloat and would mess up a
> small number of users but I could at least see in argument in favor of it.
> In contrast, "...in an existing directory" turns typos into
> annoying-to-recover-from
> errors.
>
> -t


In light of  the previous comments in this thread, would Ludovic mind to
modify the patch so it only creates an archive in an empty directory... or I
will modify it to make tla to create the archive only if the preexisting
directory is empty.

Thanks for Ludovic's contributions and the Savannah hackers' work in
supporting Arch usage in Savannah!