[darcs-users] patch filenames

[Zack Brown]

Interested folks should see the following thread, so we don't rehash
things all over again:

http://www.abridgegame.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2003/000204.html

Be well,
Zack

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:57:40PM -0700, John Meacham wrote:
> does anyone else find the current scheme for naming patch files a bit
> unwieldy? AFAICT it doesn't matter much what we name them (as long as
> they are unique) since the patch name is stored internally. I was
> thinking of 
> 
> yyyymmdd-hhmmss-email at foo.net:patchname  (hhmmss are in GMT)
> 
> this has a number of advantages, lexical sorting is also time sorting.
> simple glob patterns can be used to pull out useful info (like the patch
> name always is everything after the first ':'
> zsh people can do things like
> <20030100-20030115>-* to match all patches in the first half of
> january...
> 
> 
> that and I think they will be a lot more readable in a list.
> 
> in any case, switching the current date embedding to something like the
> above will be a big improvement.
> 
> It also might be a good idea to switch to some standard quoting scheme
> for the patchname, I am thinking QP or URL-style or halfbakery style.
>         John
> 
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