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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Inconsistency of Added-files and Removed-files
From: |
Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Inconsistency of Added-files and Removed-files |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:54:44 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: David Allouche <address@hidden>
> Having been recently converted to test-driven programming, I'm writing
> tons of test case for pyarch and uncovering some glitches in tla.
> I have just found that when explicit id-tags are used, the patchlog
> header "New-files" does not mention explicit id-tags, but the
> "Removed-files" headers does mention them.
> I have not checked the way Moved-files (or whatever the name of the
> header summarizing renames) behaves with respect to explicit id-tags
> since it is not (yet) supported by PyArch and my current priority is
> upgrading the _existing_ functionality to support file name escaping.
> I _can_ write a workaround for the inconsistence if the correct
> behaviour would be not to show explicit id-tags ever in patchlogs, so I
> would like to know what _is_ the correct behaviour.
These headers are not heavily used. Their primary use is, for human
consumption (e.g., grep for a filename).
Therefore, I think, the explicit id files can be safely omitted from
the headers.
-t