Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How to know which revision a changeset is refering to?

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 10:32:25PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > If you want to give users a hint as to a good place to apply it, I suggest
> > just including the base revision in the changeset name you choose (i.e. the
> > name of the changeset directory or the tar file you make from it).
> 
> It would actualy be very useful, if a changeset had it's base recorded.
> But it would have to be standard and machine-parseable. Then it could be
> used for 3-way merge tools.

The scheme commonly used for doing this is called "arch". It's a
system for publishing changesets with ancestry data.

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