Re: RFC - tarball/patch server in BitKeeper

[Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:31:04 -0800 Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> One thing that I've wished for in the past which looks like it *might*
> be trivial to do is to grab a raw version of the patch you already
> put out in HTML format, eg if I surf down changesets and get to a page
> like this:
> 
> http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/patch@1.1522?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-2w|cset@1.1522
> 
> except it got html formatted, so I can't play with it easily. Is there
> any way to provide the raw format of that? If not, or you don't want to,
> no problem - would just be convenient. This isn't a open source vs not
> issue, it's just I often want one fix without the whole tree, and it'd
> be a convenient place to grab it.

You almost can do this now - in most cases, copying the text from
Mozilla gives a good patch. The only problem is that the HTML
generation code seems to have a bug - it correctly escapes '<' as
"&lt;" and '>' as "&gt;", but does not escape '&' as "&amp;", and this
occasionally leads to problems.

I see another missing feature - there does not seem to be a way to
order the changesets by the order of merging them into the tree. E.g.
when you look at the linux-2.4 changesets, you will now find XFS all
over the place - even before 2.4.23, while it really has been merged
after 2.4.23.