From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 18:42:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] The diff-raw format updates.
Message-ID: <20050522184237.GG18500@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505221108000.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>

Hello,

>  - in all other cases: if the file is new, prepend a "+", if the file is 
>    old, prepend a "*", and if the file goes away, prepend a "-". In other 
>    words, the actual pathname (if it exists) always starts at the second
>    character and is always prepended by _something_ (ie there is no 
>    ambiguoity with pathnames that start in -/+/*).

I guess that this is only on human readable but not on the machine
format, right?

> What do you think?

Sounds good. Especially that we keep the fixed fields for the machine
parsable stuff.

	Thomas