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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> You can wave your wand, and the soft changeset will turn into a universal 
> diff or a BK changeset.  But it's obviously a lot cleaner, extensible, 
> flexible and easier to process automatically than a text diff.  It's an 
> internal format, so it can be improved from time to time with little or no 
> breakage.
> 
> Did that make sense?

Yes.

Some kind of better-patch is badly needed.

What kind of data would have to be in soft-changeset?
* unique id of changeset
* unique id of previous changeset
(two previous if it is merge)
? or would it be better to have here
whole path to first change?
* commit comment
* for each file:
** diff -u of change
** file's unique id
** in case of rename: new name (delete is rename to special dir)
** in case of chmod/chown: new permissions
** per-file comment

? How to handle directory moves?

Does it seem sane? Any comments?

-- 
				Pavel
Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...

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