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

[Thomas Keller]

Ben Walton schrieb:
> 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.

Be aware of the fact that monotone's revision format contains more than
just file additions, but also drops, renames (circular, file > folder,
...) and attribute changes. AFAIR all this was the hard part on this
task... Also, I'm not sure if any of the core dev's is ok with setting
our current diff format in stone by adding read support for it somewhere.

Thomas.

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