Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone Patch

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
> Monotone contains a diff command.  Should it contain a patch command as 
> well?  The reason I suggest this is because if you have a diff that 
> monotone has generated, and it contains information about file renames 
> (which I think diffs can support).  patch applies the patch and renames 
> the files, monotone is not notified of the renames and will then make 
> you rename all the files then commit.

Right now monotone does not properly generate the diffs so they contain 
the rename information, but I still think that patch supports it...

> If there was a monotone patch command, it could handle all of the 
> renaming and stuff on it's own.  Just wanted to get some thoughts on this.

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