Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Charles Duffy]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 21:44, Tom Lord wrote:
> The more such special cases we have (we have one already, which is
> arguably one too many) the harder and harder it gets to write 
> `changeset-utils'.
> 
> Yet we have pretty good evidence that a changeset-utils package will
> be desirable:  composition, factoring, editting, variations on
> variance adjustment including commutativity operations......
> 
> I don't see why hairing up the tagging stuff would outweigh those
> things.

So here's a silly suggestion.

Could special handling be done at the libvu/filesystem layer to convert
between file operations under a directory called .arch-ids and
single-line operations to a *file* called .arch-ids? That keeps it out
of meddling with the mkpatch/dopatch or anything else outside of that
low layer.

Indeed, this strikes me as the sort of code that could easily be written
by someone *other* than yourself (Tom) as it doesn't require knowledge
of what parts of tla touch those files.