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From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] The diff-raw format updates.
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 20:42:37 +0200
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Hello,

>  - in all other cases: if the file is new, prepend a "+", if the file is 
>    old, prepend a "*", and if the file goes away, prepend a "-". In other 
>    words, the actual pathname (if it exists) always starts at the second
>    character and is always prepended by _something_ (ie there is no 
>    ambiguoity with pathnames that start in -/+/*).

I guess that this is only on human readable but not on the machine
format, right?

> What do you think?

Sounds good. Especially that we keep the fixed fields for the machine
parsable stuff.

	Thomas