[darcs-users] darcs patch: Add Patch-salt as ignored prefix

[Nicolas Pouillard]

Excerpts from Tommy Pettersson's message of Sat Oct 04 14:29:08 +0200 2008:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:58:11AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:36:36PM -0400, Max Battcher wrote:
> > > I apologize for not compiling/testing this patch, but I've still yet to 
> > > completely set-up darcs' building on this laptop...
> > > 
> > > However, this is a simple one-line change that changes a small data
> > > structure and I'm sure that it should compile.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thu Oct  2 18:44:10 EDT 2008  Max Battcher <me at worldmaker.net>
> > >   * Add Patch-salt as ignored prefix
> > >   
> > >   Adds "Patch-salt: " as an ignored prefix in patch descriptions as a more
> > >   semantic alternative to "Ignore-this: " for patch differentiation as
> > >   proposed to solve issue1102.
> > 
> > I don't like this change.  Ignore-this is a more general statement, which
> > means we can reuse it for anything we like.  On the other hand, if there is
> > a universal desire to call this junk Patch-salt, we can do that.
> 
> Since no one is normally going to see it anyway it could be
> obnoxiously named Ignore-this-patch-salt:, with future additions
> like Ignore-this-hash-signature:,
> Ignore-this-<mytool>-<my>-<fancy>-<metadata>:, etc.
> 
> That will also lower the risk of anyone entering it in a long
> comment by mistake.

+1 (I'm also for the Patch-salt: idea, but this is more regular).

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Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai