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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:31:14 -0500
From: Aaron Bentley <abentley@panoramicfeedback.com>
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To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: rapid repair of corrupted revision library?
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>In a tree I had retrieved with "tla get --link", I corrupted my
>>revision library by using a plain "cp" command removing the linked
>>file first.  I quickly gave up trying to remove the resulting
>>corrupted revisions one by one.
> 
> 
> Arguably, you shouldn't have to remove those corrupted revisions yourself.
> Since tla can detect them when it tries to use them, it ciould just remove
> them itself and just go on with its work rather than complain and stop.

True, but corrupted revisions point to a process problem.  I wouldn't 
want tla to give the impression that corrupted revision libraries are a 
normal thing.  On the other hand, a way to remove all corrupt revisions 
at the same time would be nice.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.


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