Re: [PATCH] The diff-raw format updates.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 22, 2005, 19:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505221203410.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050522184237.GG18500@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

On Sun, 22 May 2005, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

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> >  - 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?

The machine readable format has the same issue: it needs to be able to distinguish between a "copy" (where the source remains) and a "rename" (where the source is removed). So you still need the "*/-" thing, and then you're better off doing "+" and "/" too in the machine-readable format, to make the differences be as small as possible _and_ to avoid confusion if a pathname starts with '*' or '-'.

		Linus