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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"
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Stefan Monnier |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"] |
Date: |
26 Aug 2004 16:37:04 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> An increased number of context lines can lead to more rejects, because the
> extreme context boundaries may not match.
And that's good if you want to avoid bad patching.
> If standard changesets can be generated using whitespace control, the nature
> of changesets changes. They're no longer "the difference between this tree
> and that tree" but "the difference between this tree and this imaginary tree
> based on that tree". I think it's worth thinking twice about that.
It doesn't matter for cherry picking.
But yes, it's clearly a bad idea for archives where the changesets need to
be able to generate the exact same files. But were's talking about
`tla changes' i.e. changesets that are not going to be directly added to
an archive.
> How is applying a changeset generated with -p "usefully different"?
> That's exactly the kind of output-format-altering change that has no benefit
> for applying changesets, but consumes programming and testing resources.
Don't know about you, but I do a fair bit of manual application of
changesets (or at least their rejected parts), in which case things like
`-p' could be convenient. Admittedly, `patch' throws away this info when
generating the .rej files, (and the info is similarly lost with diff3) so
it's not like passing "-p" is all there is to it.
Stefan
- [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], James Blackwell, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/18
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Miles Bader, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], James Blackwell, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Miles Bader, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], James Blackwell, 2004/08/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Miles Bader, 2004/08/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/25
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Miles Bader, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"],
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Miles Bader, 2004/08/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"], Stig Brautaset, 2004/08/25