Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Inconsistency of Added-files and Removed-files

[Aaron Bentley]

Tom Lord wrote:
>     > From: Mikhael Goikhman <address@hidden>
>
>     > Moreover, I would like to request several more log headers, like the ones
>     > to report permission or symlink changes, and the one to report changeset
>     > type (normal, tag, import, base).
>
> I agree that we want to have all that information available for quick
> access but I'm not so sure I agree that it belongs in patch logs.
>
> A lot of core developers are (rumours have it) brainstorming about
> what to include a future currently-theoretical change to the format 
> of archives.

Did you know about the Format 3 wishlist?

http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Archive_20Format_203_20Wishlist

> I wonder if all this changeset-implied meta-data (permission changes,
> a readily computable tree inventory, etc. should be added to the
> archive format as new files.  So.... there's the patch-log in each
> revision, sure, but there's also some files that help compute the tree
> inventory and everything that implies pretty quickly without having to
> build the tree itself.

Which I guess implies that it's easily available in the archive like 
patchlogs are?

This might also be a better place to store version variables.  I'd like 
to at least have the option of storing *lots* of version variables.

And while we're at it, I'd like inventory-ID-based versions of 
new-files, modified-files, etc.  I don't like kinda-sorta knowing which 
revisions modified a given file :-)

Aaron

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