Re: the quality of Debian's diff.gz
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I said that a stacked diff was impossible to create m4echanically
> from topic branches.
Given the topic and the merged branch, though, there's no inherent
reason why you couldn't create them. [Even if just by applying all the
topic diffs which apply cleanly in some deterministic order, then
generating a final diff from the merged branch to the tree from the
applied topic diffs.[1]]
Don Armstrong
1: This would obviously be ugly in the case where you had loads of
diffs which conflicted, but I'd suspect this only occurs frequently in
dead-upstream packages.]
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