2005/10/28, Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why? It seems like pointless obfuscation (note that every other > modern revision control system does it the arch way), > > It makes it easier to track patches that you send to projects that > don't use arch. I often ask myself: what version of the patch did I > send again? Was it the one that fixed the error I missed or not? The > less I have to think, the more I can spend on hacking.
I see what you're saying -- I though you were just suggesting to throw away the top-level of the filenames used in the diff header. What you're _really_ suggesting could be useful. [Another method of doing the same thing is simply to make the top-level of the file path be version specific, e.g.: --- tla--devo--1.3--patch-3/main.c 13 Jun 2005 00:22:11 -0000 +++ tla--devo--1.3--patch-4/main.c 28 Oct 2005 09:04:31 -0000 or thereabouts. I suppose there might be scripts depending on the presence of "mod/" or "orig/" but those I've written seem to generally just do patch/whatever -p1, so only care that there is a single meta-level of some sort. ] -miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
