Full files in changesets?

[Aaron Bentley]

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John A Meinel wrote:

>>>>I think a regular add is okay to show up as a whole bunch of lines. Do
>>>>we want to be aware of "resurrection" where a file was deleted and then
>>>>re-added with exactly the same contents. This may not be worth anything,
>>>>but it does give a more accurate portrayal of the changes.
>>
>>
>>And a different ID, I presume?  Yeah, that's a good question.  I'm
>>inclined to think we want to show them, but I doubt patch would like that.
>>
> 
> 
> Well, what would be nice is if you had a "bzr resurrect" that would
> bring it back with the *same* id.

Okay, that's nice too, and should be easy as part of a larger 'undo'
command.

I said 'different ID' because if you delete and re-add a file with the
same ID, there'd be no change to put in a changeset.

> As long as after I have applied your email changeset, I can later on
> back it out using bzr, I don't think you need to be able to patch
> --reverse it.
> 
> Does patch even delete files?

Yes.

Aaron
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