[Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit"

[Miles Bader]

Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
> > By modifying the changeset creation mechanism to have the notion of a
> > `limit', and ignore files not inside it.  Simple and straight-forward
> > (indeed, I'd think this was the _obvious_ way to do it...).
> 
> the nasty problem is interaction with hooks, and nearly any user-policy
> stuff.

Why is it a nasty problem?  You can pass any limit as arg to hooks too,
and let them do what they will (how does it work now, anyway, with the
current simple restricted commits?).  I guess something like ARCH_LIMIT,
containing a newline-separated list of the limit args originally passed.

-Miles
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