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

[Eric Kow]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:53:34 -0600, zooko wrote:
> However, our goal should be basically to redefine the patch comment  
> so that in the future there are two separate chunks of data in the  
> patch comments: the user-editable, user-visible part which serves the  
> same purpose that the patch comment has always served, and the  
> arbitrary key-value-pairs part which serves as a place where future  
> versions of darcs can exchange new fields with each other without  
> hopelessly confusing darcs 2.1.0 when it sees patches containing  
> those new fields.

A simple variant of this approach might be just to have
a single 'cut-off' line like

  Ignore-everything-from-this-line-down-used-by-darcs-only

And so

Ignore-everything-from-this-line-down-used-by-darcs-only
patch-salt:
patch-version:
etc...

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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