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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE REQUEST] unify various commands around arch_
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Aaron Bentley |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE REQUEST] unify various commands around arch_fqvsn_from_tree_and_input |
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Wed, 19 May 2004 09:14:23 -0400 |
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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.
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE REQUEST] unify various commands around arch_fqvsn_from_tree_and_input, Colin Walters, 2004/05/20