Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone Patch

[Joel Crisp]

Bit difficult under windows....a lot of the subsidiary functionality has to be implemented in the core until the new Microsoft shell 
comes on ... many places won't let people install cygwin, and for full integration with other windows applications you can't rely on 
it being there.

Joel

Richard Li wrote:
> Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
>
> > Monotone contains a diff command.  Should it contain a patch command 
> > as well?  The reason I suggest this is because if you have a diff that 
> > monotone has generated, and it contains information about file renames 
> > (which I think diffs can support).  patch applies the patch and 
> > renames the files, monotone is not notified of the renames and will 
> > then make you rename all the files then commit.
> >
> > If there was a monotone patch command, it could handle all of the 
> > renaming and stuff on it's own.  Just wanted to get some thoughts on 
> > this.
>
>
> couldn't you do this with a shell script? (perhaps the core monotone 
> should avoid adding commands that wouldn't benefit from non-command-line 
> access to monotone metadata ... but i also see value in a unified 
> command syntax, too)
>
>
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