Re: GSoC Progress report

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:55:39PM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 16:05:49 +0200:
> > But there's no harm in making svn patch interpret existing move information
> > in git diffs. We can carry out a corresponding copy + delete.
> > We won't be generating move git diff headers ourselves, but we should
> > be interoperable with git diff and hg diff as much as we can.
>
> hg diff? I don't recall hearing of 'hg diff' on this list before... are we
> trying to be able to parse 'hg diff' output as well? Or how does 'hg diff'
> come into the picture?

hg can produce the same unidiff format extensions as git diff:

$ hg rename alpha alpha-renamed
$ hg diff -g
diff --git a/alpha b/alpha-renamed
rename from alpha
rename to alpha-renamed
$

So with us adopting the format as well, it becomes more and more of
a de-facto standard for expressing tree changes in unidiff.

Stefan
Received on 2010-07-29 11:10:21 CEST