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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files
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tomas |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files |
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Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:57:57 +0100 |
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:10:49PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 1) Extend diffutils to handle various cases like this and standartize
> > use of these enhanced diffutils.
> > 2) Implement support for multiple diffutils in tla, where the archive
> > would somehow state which ones it needs and which ones should be used
> > for different files in the archive.
>
> Nb 2 is clearly the most flexible option.
> It could even be used internally to replace the .arch-ids subdirectory with
> a .arch-ids file with a specialized merge/diff algorithm (which would mirror
> the order-agnostic diff/merge currently used for directories).
Hmpf. But if we have an extensible set of ``diffing algorithms'' (which sounds
very attractive indeed), do we have to care for `evolution'? Will we have to
archive those algorithms as well? Or keep a central registry of blessed
implementations? Or a combination of both?
There seems to be some level of experience on those things among the distributed
file system folks (Coda, Ficus). They seem to use file-type specific
conflict resolvers. I have no idea of how they resolve (pun unintended ;)
the above mentioned problem.
I might try to read up on this when I get a bunch of Copious Free Time, but
it might take a while.
Regards
-- tomás
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- [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, (continued)
- [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Anand Kumria, 2005/02/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Aaron Bentley, 2005/02/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Jan Hudec, 2005/02/12
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Miles Bader, 2005/02/13
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2005/02/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Jan Hudec, 2005/02/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Robert Collins, 2005/02/14
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files,
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, tomas, 2005/02/15
[Gnu-arch-users] False "binary" files, Sergio Callegari, 2005/02/14