Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] _MTN/log pre-specified magic line quickie

[Thomas Keller]

Ben Walton schrieb:
> Well, there's something to think about.  What about a mtn do_patch or
> something similar that takes a .diff/.patch and applies it, adding
> unknown files afterwards?
> 
> The problem I see with that is that you may add other files
> inadvertently if you had already introduced new files...?
> 
> Might be worth some thought though, as patch -p1 < somepatch.diff is a
> fairly common thing in a distributed project...

I think there was some discussion recently to finally teach monotone to
read its own diffs it outputs, but this seems not to be a straight
forward task. Others may be more specific on this topic, but in general
I'd second such a request =)

Thomas.

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