Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@madism.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 10:30:14PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> >> Anyway, I'd rather wait some time until people have tried using
> >> this format before deciding if we must make some special case due
> >> to git format-patch.
> >
> > It's not a special case. Kernel people, git people, gnome people,
> > X.org people, all can cherry-pick patches and format-patch them
> > away. […]
That's because those projects are in the special case of also using Git.
Despite its popularity, Git is far from the only DVCS in common use.
> What format do the other DVCS systems use for patch export?
Bazaar users generate a “merge directive” for serialising a change set
<URL:http://bazaar-vcs.org/MergeDirective>. The merge directive is
metadata to be read by the ‘bzr merge’ command; it is commonly
accompanied in the same message by a plain-text ‘bzr diff’ output.
> Also, the git format-patch command can include encoded binary files,
> which I don't think patch(1) can handle.
Right, all these serialisations are essentially supersets of what
‘patch(1)’ can do, since they include things like removing files etc.
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