Re: [Gnu-arch-users] self-contained changesets?

[Jan Hudec]

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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