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> Some kind of better-patch is badly needed.
>
> What kind of data would have to be in soft-changeset?
> * unique id of changeset
If you want...
> * unique id of previous changeset
What is "previous"?
> (two previous if it is merge)
And if they are merges themselves? Or if it is a 3-way merge? Etc? How do I
get the original patches (if wanted)?
> ? or would it be better to have here
> whole path to first change?
> * commit comment
Right.
> * for each file:
> ** diff -u of change
> ** file's unique id
What is that? If I moved the file away and created a new one? Other moving
around stuff?
> ** in case of rename: new name (delete is rename to special dir)
> ** in case of chmod/chown: new permissions
> ** per-file comment
Much more important: How to merge a conflicting patch in sanely? This is
perhaps the worst stumbling block on plain patches.
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