Reinier Lamers wrote:
I am still opposed to Ignore-This hacks.
Is there an alternative? And in what way is it a hack? The "Ignore-this:"
mechanism is intended to give information about a patch to the processing
darcs, isn't it?
It's been discussed before that patches should have a real, reliably
extensible metadata format, rather than the quick hacks that are the
Ignore-This lines, which look stupid when you look at the real patch
comment and are very obviously a hack anytime you see a patch in the wild.
Of course, that discussion gets derailed in the debate between coming up
with a new, better patch format in general or using the existing long
comments ala Ignore-This, but perhaps with a more, strictly standardized
MIME-like or email header-like approach. Of course any such approach
will break compatibility with one or more tools...
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