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

[Ben Walton]

It sounds like an interesting piece to write, and if nobody else is
working on such a feature, I might take a poke at it.  It'll be a good
exercise to acquaint myself more with the roster and workspace code, I
think.

I think that such a feature should collect the unknown files prior to
applying the patch and then compare the unknown list after, taking the
non-overlapping portion of the two as files that were added.  This
could leave pre-existing unknown files as they were.

-Ben

On 12/18/06, Thomas Keller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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