Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone

Horst von Brand
2003-03-16T01:36:30Z

Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> dijo:

[...]

> Some kind of better-patch is badly needed.
>
> What kind of data would have to be in soft-changeset?
> * unique id of changeset

If you want...

> * unique id of previous changeset

What is "previous"?

> (two previous if it is merge)

And if they are merges themselves? Or if it is a 3-way merge? Etc? How do I
get the original patches (if wanted)?

> ? or would it be better to have here
> whole path to first change?
> * commit comment

Right.

> * for each file:
> ** diff -u of change
> ** file's unique id

What is that? If I moved the file away and created a new one? Other moving
around stuff?

> ** in case of rename: new name (delete is rename to special dir)
> ** in case of chmod/chown: new permissions
> ** per-file comment

Much more important: How to merge a conflicting patch in sanely? This is
perhaps the worst stumbling block on plain patches.
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