Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE REQUEST] unify various commands around arch_fqvsn_from_tree_and_input

[Aaron Bentley]

Colin Walters wrote:
I also removed the
> ability for delta to operate on directories, which made things easier. 
> This last bit (which is in patch-8) may be slightly controversial (?)
> but it's cleaner without, and it seems like people should just use
> 'mkpatch'...

Oops, missed this last time.

Please don't remove functionality from delta (and apply-delta, which 
uses it).  Delta and apply-delta are low-level primitives.  As I 
mentioned in a recent email, combined with "logs" and "tree-root", they 
can replace:
changes
undo
changeset
update
get
get-changeset
replay [--reverse] REVISION

We don't generally use [apply-]delta for these, and that's more-or-less 
the point: there are far more convenient commands than delta and 
apply-delta.  Let's keep them raw and powerful, so they can be applied 
when no other tool is suitable.

If you can fix your patch to support directories for delta, great.  But 
delta's a powerful-and-inconvenient command.  Even with your changes, 
it'll still be pretty inconvenient, but a lot less powerful.

Also, it will probably break scripts.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.