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Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:51:44 -0600
From: John Meinel <tla@johnmeinel.com>
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Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla-short paths
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chth@gmx.net wrote:
>>I didn't see a flag for tla get --short-path, but it would seem that
>>the basic framework exists, and it might just be a matter of extending
>>it to more cases.
> 
> 
> tla should be able to automatically detect which kind of paths is used
> by checking if the pathname contains '--', 'get' does not need that
> option.
> 
> 	Christian

Well, in Ron's work, whether the {arch} directory is short is a 
tree-local option. Meaning that whenever he commits he fixes up the tar 
header so that short paths are translated to their full path. This way 
the archive format doesn't change, just the local directory.

Because of this, when you do a "get", or pretty much any other command 
that would pull from a remote archive, you need a way to specify which 
way the local tree should be. I personally think there should be a 
per-user setting (say .arch-params/=short-paths).

What you say is true if the archive format itself is modified. This is 
more of a workaround, allowing win32 users access to any archives that 
currently exist.

I do agree that if we start to change the archive format, then it could 
be automatically detected.

But until then, we need a way to access all of the current archives that 
exist.

John
=:->

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