On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 13:10:06 -0400, David Roundy wrote: > 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?
I think it's just Zooko trying to be on the safe side. He thinks it's conceivable that users would actually put Ignore-this: into their patch logs for daily use (I think it's a stretch, but who knows). The second thing he is trying to do is to make us more future-proof by suggesting a way to do things so that we can add more metadata in the future without confusing darcs 2.1.0 The simplest variant I can think of to his proposal is to have a single cut-off line: Ignore-everything-from-this-line-down-used-by-darcs-only So then we can just do whatever we want below that. This has the advantage of doing what Zooko wants without being complicated and without us having to discuss what to call key-value pairs in the future. I don't have any strong feelings either way, but I would like to ship something :-) -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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