[RFC] Make diffstat work with bazaar 1.5

[Russ Brown]

Martin Albisetti wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:51 PM, John Arbash Meinel
> <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> It also honestly seems like we should be able to generate 'diffstat' a lot
>> cheaper than having to actually process the diff output. Certainly at a
>> lower
>> level we have all the information you need, in structured format.
> 
> That's what we currently do in Loggerhead too, so work in that area
> would benefit quite a few projects.
> 
> I'm not sure I'm qualified to do the work required in bzrlib itself,
> but I'd be happy to help out in building an API that would make
> getting diffs easier/better/cheaper.
> 

On the surface it sounds like what is needed is some API that takes two
trees and returns some abstract representation of the diff between the
two trees. I'm sure it's way more complicated than that though...

Does such an abstract diff representation exist already, I wonder?

In other news, diffstat is now hosted on launchpad and trunk works with
bzr 1.5. I suppose I should update the plugins page with its new location:

https://launchpad.net/bzr-diffstat

> 
> 
> Martin