Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Matthieu Moy]

Michael Poole <address@hidden> writes:

>> Changesets are tar files. They cannot be posted easily to a mailing
>> list for approval and commit; metadata tends to get lost.
>
> How so?  If you have the tar file, you can use show-changeset to get a
> summary of the changes or apply it to your tree.  I have not plumbed
> the details of some of the files and directories in a changeset, but
> most of them seem to be there for a reason.

See this discussion about that :

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-04/msg00650.html

tla show-changeset  is nice, but  not bidirectional. You  can't easily
build a  changeset based  on the output  of show-changeset.  There's a
clear lack here.

-- 
Matthieu