Re: svn diff output

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 02:59, John Peacock wrote:

> He has also recently introduced a patch management feature which will allow
> patch submission and management, either as conventional unified diffs, or as a
> semi-custom format which has exactly the same effect on the Subversion level.
> He intends to build a simple patch manager app which someone could use to
> automate applying supplied patches to the repository.
>

Wow.

In defining an extended patch format, it seems like there are a lot of
different goals to choose from here. And they all seem to be mutually
exclusive. What's most important to us?

  * arch compatibility?

  * svk compatibility?

  * 'patch' compatibility? (i.e. defining a format whereby
tree-structure changes are just ignored by Larry Wall's 'patch'?)

  * trying to use what we have? (tweaking our dumpfile format)

I think we can choose only one of these goals. :-)

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Received on Thu Sep 16 14:01:49 2004