Re: [Lxr-dev] Re: /bin/true as a zombie
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From: Jan-Benedict G. <jb...@lu...> - 2001-08-02 08:07:37
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:45:26AM +0200, Peder O. Klingenberg wrote: > Jason Dorje Short <js...@de...> writes: > > > No doubt I'm missing something, but I don't understand why my change was > > conceptually wrong. I took each version to be indexed, and traversed > > the tree for that version. > > But you can't find the versions to be indexed by asking for the > versions of the root of the tree. In a CVS tree, each file can have a > differing number of versions, have completely different tags, etc. I don't like to search a tree for all tags and take those as --allversions. I think the "old" way in having a file (or this Perl'ish "qw" list) in which all versions are listed is better. There, you've got a list _the user supplied_. She may want to only show off a number of versions, but not all of those. It is not that handy to call genxref with all wanted versions if you could simply take them from a file:-) > > The current/former behavior is to traverse the tree, and for each > > file index it for all possible versions. > > Yes, that was the point. Unless you specify a version, you get all > the versions a file has to offer. Which is bad. I'd loke to only have those versions which have a user-given tag, and only those the user really *wants* to see. So keep the traditional version list and loop over it:-) > by the name of 'range'. Would you be happy if --allversions just used > the range in lxr.conf? Yes! I think this actually is what I would prefer:-) MfG, JBG |