Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: BUG: extra diff arguments for "tla changes --diffs"]

[Stefan Monnier]

> What I mean is: since archive changesets are used for inexact patching,
> people will want to control archive changesets the same way they control
> 'changes' output.

Huh?  I don't see any evidence of that.  The main reason people want options
in `tla changes' is for viewing.

> Hmm.  Perhaps that could be addressed by giving people something close to
> what they want: get-changeset could take diff parameters, and if it did, it
> would call delta instead of its normal behaviour.  Similarly for replay,
> update, star-merge, etc.

Indeed, although it's probably better to tell people "use delta instead"
than to write the code for it.


        Stefan