Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Mixing star-merge and selective replay

[Aaron Bentley]

Tom Lord wrote:
>  AFAIK, there's no easy way 
>     > to add a single patch-log.  Which is a pity.
>
> If you want to dig around in the boiler room:
>
> There's many reasons why apply_changeset should sometimes _not_ do
> anything under the patch log.
>
> There but for for a s/!/foo == / goes a modification to changeset
> application that would allow either ignoring or doing only patch-log
> changes.  From there, it can be floated to various CLIs of which "add
> patch log" would be a trivial example.

Yeah.  I've been trying to figure out whether what's desirable is
1. doing it specifically for patch logs
2. doing it for files that match the exclude regexp
3. some other kind of criteria

The problem with the exclude regexp is that it's intended for user 
convenience, not program correctness.  The other problem is that it 
would work in the common case. :-)

Aaron