[Babase] Babase - tla Commit Error

Hubbard babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:03:54 -0500


Thanks Karl.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
To: <babase@bwf-master.princeton.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Babase] Babase - tla Commit Error


> 
> On 07/08/2005 06:01:53 PM, Hubbard wrote:
>> Hi Karl,
>> I keep getting this error everytime I attempt to tla commit;
>> 
>>  These files would be source but lack inventory ids (`tla add' or a
>> tagline perhaps?):
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> doc/babase_system_html
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> These explicit ids have no corresponding file:
>> 
>> 
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>> .arch-ids/babase_system_html.id
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>> 
>> commit: commit aborted
>> 
>> What does this mean??
> 
> It means that tla does not know what to do with that file, so it won't
> let you commit.  (To add it to the archive you'd do a 'tla add
> babase_system_html', but we don't want it in the archive!)
> I (or I suppose you) can add that file (directory?) to the ignore list
> by marking it precious in .arch-inventory.  (Precious means
> keep it around in the tree but don't put it in the archive.)
> But in the mean time
> if you delete the file you'll be able to commit and then
> just make it again if you want it.
> 
> Karl <kop@meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
> 
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