Hi Daniel.
I assume you intended this to go to <dev_at_s.t.o>; it looks like a public
response but for some reason I had to re-add the list address manually.
Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Julian, all,
>
> I am sorry if I appeared to be asking everyone to do my research or
[...]
> Hence I chose the middle way (not post the research right away, but
> indicate that I had already done it and was willing to post it). I'll
> know what to do next time, however -- thanks for correcting me.
No, no, I didn't think that. I must have missed the implication that you'd
already researched, though. Whatever, it's no problem!
> As Charles says, the new patch format will not include human-readable
> property diffs. As you (Julian) suggest, I list below several proposed
> formats, some mine and some from the archives.
My first thought on your list below is: can you eliminate some of them already
with a few tests, deductions or Googling? All the ones that cause "patch" to
throw an error are probably non-starters. For example, can you find out whether
any common implementations of "patch" exit as soon as they try to patch a
non-existent file? If any do, you can cross option (1) off the list. You
already said you can't see option (4) working; I haven't looked at the details
but assuming you're right you can cross that off the list too. How about (2)
and (3)?
Thanks.
- Julian
[...]
> [ not in any particular order ]
>
>
> 1. Using bogus filenames.
>
> Index: some/path/trunk/svn:ignore
> --- some/path/trunk/svn:ignore
> +++ some/path/trunk/svn:ignore
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> Makefile
> -*.O
> +*.o
>
> This format would mislead patch(1) into attempting to patch nonexisting
> files. No harm done, but being ignored by patch(1) would be better.
>
>
> 2. Change the diff header:
> Drop the '---'/'+++' headers and rename the 'Index:' header. [1]
>
> Path: some/path/trunk
> Property: svn:ignore
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> Makefile
> -*.O
> +*.o
>
> The hunks are unchanged, only the diff header is. Further tweaks to the
> header are possible, for example:
>
> Property: svn:ignore (on 'some/path/trunk/')
> ----- svn:ignore some/path/trunk/
> +++++ svn:ignore some/path/trunk/
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> Makefile
> -*.O
> +*.o
>
> The format originally proposed in [1] is:
>
> Index: foo/bar.c (property 'svn:keywords' changed)
> ======================================================
> @@ -0,3 +0,3 @@
> Date
> -Revision
> +Id
> Author
>
> (In my testing, patch(1) happily applied patches with 'Index:' but
> without '---' and '+++' lines. It seems necessary to tweak all
> three indicators.)
>
>
> 3. Change the hunk headers:
> Use '@@@' instead of '@@'.
>
> Property: svn:ignore
> --- some/path/trunk/
> +++ some/path/trunk/
> @@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@@
> Makefile
> -*.O
> +*.o
>
> The reverse of the previous option. My patch(1) ignores it:
>
> % diff -u foo1 foo2 | sed s/@@/@@@/g | patch
> patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
> % diff -u foo1 foo2 | patch
> patching file foo1
> %
>
> Using a different character than '@' should have the same effect:
>
> Property: svn:ignore
> --- some/path/trunk/
> +++ some/path/trunk/
> %% -1,2 +1,2 %%
> Makefile
> -*.O
> +*.o
>
>
> 4. Tez Kamihira's draft changeset format [2] includes property diffs
> in a hunk titled "@@ properties: @@".
>
> I do not see how this format scales to multi-line properties. It gives
> the following example, which seems to assume that all properties are
> one-lined. (For example, it does not allow one property's diff to have
> multiple hunks.)
>
> However, I have not read the proposal fully.
>
> ---- ./foo.txt 2005-05-23 10:58:17.583015024 +0900
> ++++ ./bar.txt 2005-05-23 10:59:12.976593920 +0900
> @@ id: i_abc @@
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> aaaaaaaaaa
> +bbbbbbbbbb
> cccccccccc
> dddddddddd
> @@ properties: @@
> -zzz: xxx
> +zzz: yyy
>
> [end of proposals]
>
>
> Most of the ideas in options (2) and (3) are orthogonal, and may be used
> independently of each other.
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
> [1] http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-05/0884.shtml and thread
> [2] http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-05/1255.shtml
>
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