Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] _MTN/log pre-specified magic line quickie

[Ben Walton]

Ok, that's cool.  I'll have a look at it anyway.  It may be a larger
function than I'm ready for yet anyway...Nothing like a good challenge
though! :)

-Ben

On 12/18/06, Thomas Keller <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ben Walton schrieb:
> > It sounds like an interesting piece to write, and if nobody else is
> > working on such a feature, I might take a poke at it.  It'll be a good
> > exercise to acquaint myself more with the roster and workspace code, I
> > think.
> >
> > I think that such a feature should collect the unknown files prior to
> > applying the patch and then compare the unknown list after, taking the
> > non-overlapping portion of the two as files that were added.  This
> > could leave pre-existing unknown files as they were.
>
> Be aware of the fact that monotone's revision format contains more than
> just file additions, but also drops, renames (circular, file > folder,
> ...) and attribute changes. AFAIR all this was the hard part on this
> task... Also, I'm not sure if any of the core dev's is ok with setting
> our current diff format in stone by adding read support for it somewhere.
>
> Thomas.
>
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