[darcs-users] darcs patch: Ignore junk more conservatively. (and 1 more)
David Roundy
droundy at darcs.net
Wed Oct 8 17:10:06 UTC 2008
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:31:57PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
> For discussion, and maybe stable.
>
> 1. Zooko wants darcs patches to tell darcs how many ignore-this
> lines to ignore. I understand his proposal (at last!), but
> feel it is a bit too complicated. (Sure, the parsing is
> very very easy, but why do it when we can just change the
> junk names to something users are less likely to use?)
I don't like this idea.
> 2. a. darcs 2.1.0pre3 ignores /every/ junky line
> b. darcs unstable generates junky lines at the beginning
> of every patch log
> c. Zooko proposes (as a short-term alternative to #1)
> that we ignore junky lines at the /end/ of a patch log
>
> This patch is a compromise between b and c. To get (c)
> we could easily flip the (dropWhile is_ignored) into
> (takeWhile is_not_ignored), which could be fine too but
> entails changing darcs-unstable.
I don't like these ideas.
> 3. * Max suggested that we call the line 'Patch-salt'
> * David pointed out that 'Ignore-this' is more general
> * Tommy suggested 'Ignore-this-patch-salt'
> * Nathan proposed 'Hidden-metadata'
>
> I vote for the Tommy route, which seems to meet all
> criteria and also reduces the risk of ignoring too much.
Nor do I like these.
What I don't know (and maybe it's hidden somewhere in those emails
that I only skimmed) is what problem there is. Why is it considered
important for users to be able to write "Ignore-this: foobar" in their
patches and have darcs display this to people who pull from them?
David
> Wed Oct 8 14:54:17 BST 2008 Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com>
> * Ignore junk more conservatively.
> Instead of ignoring every line that looks like junk, only ignore
> initial lines that do so.
>
> Wed Oct 8 14:57:52 BST 2008 Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com>
> * Make patch junk name more specific.
> We want to reduce the chances of somebody's patch comment being
> accidentally ignored by darcs.
> Idea by Max Battcher and Tommy Pettersson.
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