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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 21:05:54 +0200
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Hello,

> The machine readable format has the same issue: it needs to be able to 
> distinguish between a "copy" (where the source remains) and a "rename" 
> (where the source is removed). So you still need the "*/-" thing, and then 
> you're better off doing "+" and "/" too in the machine-readable format, to 
> make the differences be as small as possible _and_ to avoid confusion if a 
> pathname starts with '*' or '-'.

thanks, I see the point now.

	Thomas