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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] self-contained changesets?
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Jan Hudec |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] self-contained changesets? |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:52:27 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 14:01:42 -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 13:19, Tom Lord wrote:
> > A simple thing is that you can, of course, pack up changesets to send
> > via such transports. Currently, encoding a tar bundle of a changeset
> > is the way to do that --- certainly (as has been often discussed) a
> > fancier encoding would be welcome.
>
> What does tar (or tar/gz) leave to be desired?
IIRC the idea was to have a format, that can be applied with plain patch
(sans permissions and such) and still contained the full arch changeset
information. (It would make tracking external sources with arch easier).
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