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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] tla delta should not put everything to st


From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] tla delta should not put everything to stdout
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:29:09 -0700 (PDT)

    > From: Amit Shah <address@hidden>

    > > Amit Shah <address@hidden> writes:
    > >> Normal behavior should be that just the patch be put in something.patch
    > >> and the "* finding or making x", etc, output be put on stderr.

    > > What's `just the patch'?  [The "A ..." / "D ..." lines, anyway, _are_
    > > arguably part of the patch.]

    > 'Just the patch' would mean no output like

    > * finding or making c--b--v--patch-4
    > * build reference tree for address@hidden/c--b--v--patch-4
    > * from import revision: address@hidden/c--b--v--base-0
    > * patching for revision: address@hidden/c--b--v--patch-1
    > * patching for revision: address@hidden/c--b--v--patch-2
    > * patching for revision: address@hidden/c--b--v--patch-3
    > * patching for revision: address@hidden/c--b--v--patch-4
    > * finding or making c--b--v--patch-6
    > <same story repeats>
    > *computing changeset
    > <files added / deleted / modified>
    > <patch>


That stuff is a legitamate part of the "report" of what the command
does.

In theory, we could add a --quiet option to surpress it.   I'm willing
to merge such a change if it's important.   But I have trouble seeing
why it would be important.

    > Also, a new option, perhaps, to tla delta to output just a GNU patch file,
    > so that patches can be sent to people not using arch could be added...?

Or a new command for that -- one that would warn you if the patch
isn't faithful (e.g., there are renames or adds or deletes to deal
with).  That's fine.  That's trivial.  Merged on demand, modulo my
slowness lately (sorry about that --- big planning phase going on).

-t






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