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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues
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mdpoole |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues |
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Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:25:11 -0400 |
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Matthieu Moy writes:
> Michael Poole <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Changesets are tar files. They cannot be posted easily to a mailing
>>> list for approval and commit; metadata tends to get lost.
>>
>> How so? If you have the tar file, you can use show-changeset to get a
>> summary of the changes or apply it to your tree. I have not plumbed
>> the details of some of the files and directories in a changeset, but
>> most of them seem to be there for a reason.
>
> See this discussion about that :
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-04/msg00650.html
>
> tla show-changeset is nice, but not bidirectional. You can't easily
> build a changeset based on the output of show-changeset. There's a
> clear lack here.
I never assumed show-changeset would be an invertible operation. I
said "If you have the tar file." A tar file can easily be mailed or
put on a web server, and you do not have to worry about tab<->space
conversions breaking it (which is a frequent problem with plain text
patches on the linux-kernel list).
Sure, you can argue that a flat-text changeset format would be nice,
but it will sometimes break for non-ASCII files and inevitably break
for binary files.
Michael