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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues
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Matthieu Moy |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:17:26 +0200 |
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Michael Poole <address@hidden> writes:
>> Changesets are tar files. They cannot be posted easily to a mailing
>> list for approval and commit; metadata tends to get lost.
>
> How so? If you have the tar file, you can use show-changeset to get a
> summary of the changes or apply it to your tree. I have not plumbed
> the details of some of the files and directories in a changeset, but
> most of them seem to be there for a reason.
See this discussion about that :
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-04/msg00650.html
tla show-changeset is nice, but not bidirectional. You can't easily
build a changeset based on the output of show-changeset. There's a
clear lack here.
--
Matthieu