From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:03:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Resurrect diff-tree-helper -R
Message-ID: <20050514150356.GK3905@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7voebe63zs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:33:11AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> Another possibility.  How about generating the following _only_
> when mode changes (including create and delete), even for human
> consumption?  There will be _no_ such line when mode or type
> does not change.
> 
> # mode: 100644 100755 path/to/a/file/that/changed/mode
> # mode: 100644 120000 path/to/a/file/that/changed/to/symlink
> # mode: 100644 100644 path/to/a/file/with/no/mode/change
> # mode: . 100644 path/to/a/new/file
> # mode: 100644 . path/to/a/deleted/file
> 
> This is not "something like this", but a proposal for the exact
> output format specification (I am going to code immediately).
> Each token above is separated with exactly one ' ' (ASCII 0x20)
> each, and such a line comes immediately before the patch for the
> file.  Showing both mode bits is to prepare for the case you
> would want to apply the patch in reverse.
> 
> This is for machine consumption and there is no need to force
> them to parse out -> and (), so I dropped them.  And mode or
> type change happens so rarely, it would be OK for human
> consumption if we show these garbage (from human point of view)
> only when things change.  Can you parse this, or do you always
> want to have them even if nothing changes?
> 
> Let's see how this would look like to humans.

For humans I'd say "Mode change" instead of "mode" would be better, and
for machines I still think "@" would be better than "#". "#" can occur
quite naturally in some code snippets or whatever pasted to the commit
message, which is extremely unlikely for "@". What are the advantages
of "#"?

I like the rest. That's basically what I've imagined, and without the
arrows it's even better. :-)

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