Some question about bzr

[Aaron Bentley]

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Matthieu MOY wrote:
> Magnus Therning said:

>>What's missing from the output of 'bar diff' to make it a changeset?
> 
> 
> What's missing is a way to import it on the other side (unless it already
> exists and I missed it).

No, patches are missing a lot of data.

Bzr changesets are not really changesets.  They're compressed revisions.

Here's what really happens when you 'apply' a changeset:
1. bzr installs the revision into your branch
2. bzr gets the tree for that revision
3. bzr finds a suitable base revision
4. bzr does a merge.

So what's needed is things like file-ids, commit messages, etc.

The changeset plugin is here:
http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/plugins/bzr-changeset/

I think it would be awesome for bzr to support patches as well, in such
a way that two people applying and committing the same patch got exactly
the same result.  But that's a somewhat different story.

I'm inclined to think that bzr diff should provide a way to produce
patch-compatible output.  bzr changeset does.

Aaron
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