Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone

Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-15T20:43:22Z

> Yes.
>
> Some kind of better-patch is badly needed.
>
> What kind of data would have to be in soft-changeset?
> * unique id of changeset
> * unique id of previous changeset
> (two previous if it is merge)
> ? or would it be better to have here
> whole path to first change?
> * commit comment
> * for each file:
> ** diff -u of change
> ** file's unique id
> ** in case of rename: new name (delete is rename to special dir)
> ** in case of chmod/chown: new permissions
> ** per-file comment
>
> ? How to handle directory moves?
>
> Does it seem sane? Any comments?

Looks good to me.

If people keep changesets sanely, then there should be no need for
per-file comments IMHO, but I'm sure that's a matter of debate.

M.