Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com> writes:
> One thing I've wondered about Subversion meets arch: a useful
> operation is to be able to diff two revisions, producing a patch set
> which can be given to people not using version control.
>
> 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.
Absolutely. I was thinking the same thing, reading over the arch
project last week.
Since the arch format supports renames and copies well, we should
probably use it for the shared "standard", and just extend it as
necessary to support Subversion properties. While Subversion's
current XML format is probably good for automated import/export (it
handles binary files well, and supports size-efficient `svndiff'
diffs), it is not as human-friendly as arch's format. The other
format we should all look at is Bitkeeper's; Tom may already have done
that?
Anyway, this not something Subversion can get to this month :-(, but
let's keep it in the back of our minds for later.
Good luck with arch, Tom!
-Karl
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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:57 2006