[darcs-devel] [issue686] wish: DARCS_PATCHES_XML exported for some --posthook cases

[Mark Stosberg]

New submission from Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com>:

While working on issue58, I tried out the new "DARCS_PATCHES" export for
--posthook, which is in a plain-text format. That experience clarified for me
that we should also export DARCS_PATCHES_XML, providing the same data in XML
format. 

The reason is --posthook primarily exists for automation, and the XML format is
convenient for being processed by automated tools. By contract, parsing the
human-readable format of DARCS_PATCHES is cumbersome and hackish, requiring
things like matching lines that start with " * " to mean that we've found a
patch name.

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messages: 3383
nosy: beschmi, droundy, kowey, markstos, tommy
priority: wishlist
status: unread
title: wish: DARCS_PATCHES_XML exported for some --posthook cases
topic: Darcs2

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