Re: svn ci/up --xml-file

Kevin Pilch-Bisson <kevin@pilch-bisson.net> writes:

> For generating patch files, we could use 'svn ci --xml-file patch.xml'. Th=
> is
> would generate an xml output file as normal, except that it would use:
> 1) gnu diff for textdeltas (if text, svndiff if binary).
> 2) textdeltas would be inline instead of post-fix (for easier reading).
>
> I think the easiest way to do this would be to add an 'apply_patch' file to
> our editor vtables, and a 'type=3D"gnu/svn"' attribute to the text-delta
> tag.

Great plan, Kevin. Our XML format is already 90% of the way to being
a patch format that understands trees and properties. Adding
human-readable in-line unidiff data is all it needs, and we're done.
I say go for it!

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:41 2006