Re: More on "arch" (our competition)

Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com> writes:

> Neither Posix nor GNU patch files handle file and directory renaming.
> arch provides a patch set format which does, and portable scripts
> which process those patch sets.
>
> Perhaps we should "standardize" a new patch set format.

A great idea. We have had the issue of an "extended patch format" on
the back-burner for quite a while.

Of interest: Subversion already has an extended patch format. The
good news is that it's very readable XML. The bad news is that the
XML's embedded file diffs are in human-unreadable binary form.

One idea that's been floating around is to embed unified context diffs
in our XML. Another idea is to scratch the DTD altogether (and our
XML code) and come up with a new extended patch format that actually
looks more like a variant of the prevailing standard.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:56 2006