Re: What does 'svn diff' do?

kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Michael Sweet <mike@easysw.com> writes:
>> How about just coming up with a proposed format, and then float it
>> among the other projects for comments? IMHO, nothing will happen
>> until someone writes it up - the rest is "easy", you just tweak
>> things until everything is covered, and if you can't reach agreement
>> then you'll at least have something that will work for Subversion.
>
> Um, right.
>
> You should look over the past discussions and see how "easy" this is :-).

:)

FWIW, I *have* read the past discussions, and it sounds like the SVK
folks already have a working patch format, complete with metadata,
for Subversion. Granted, this is probably not a general solution,
and I personally would prefer a metadata encoding that is human-
readable/easier to generate, however it is a place to start.

> (I don't mean to discourage you, but I do think you're being overly
> optimistic about the effort required.)

No, however I am more optimistic about an effort that has even an
incomplete specification/proposal than one in which people say "this
is hard, we need to get with everyone else to define it".

It is laudable to have a patch format that is usable by all version
control systems, however from a practical standpoint it is more
important to have a way to express patches beyond universal diffs
with Subversion (I personally don't care about anything else.)

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