On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:53:34 -0600, zooko wrote: > However, our goal should be basically to redefine the patch comment > so that in the future there are two separate chunks of data in the > patch comments: the user-editable, user-visible part which serves the > same purpose that the patch comment has always served, and the > arbitrary key-value-pairs part which serves as a place where future > versions of darcs can exchange new fields with each other without > hopelessly confusing darcs 2.1.0 when it sees patches containing > those new fields.
A simple variant of this approach might be just to have a single 'cut-off' line like Ignore-everything-from-this-line-down-used-by-darcs-only And so Ignore-everything-from-this-line-down-used-by-darcs-only patch-salt: patch-version: etc... -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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