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

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > ability for delta to operate on directories, which made things easier. 
> >
> > Also, it will probably break scripts.
>
>
> It will definitely break one of mine...
>
> [The syntax ambiguity of delta/apply-delta working on both revisions and
> directories is kind of ugly, but the functionality is very handy.]

Yeah, it's ugly.  Valid revision names are always considered to be 
revisions, but I believe it's possible to express any file path so that 
it's not a valid revision.  For example, a directory named 
"address@hidden/cat--branch--1.0--patch-3" could be referred to as 
"./address@hidden/cat--branch--1.0--patch-3", which isn't valid.

Aaron