C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
Arnold Robbins
arnold at audiofax.com
Wed Sep 19 02:53:37 AEST 1990
In article <1990Sep17.164545.1603 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Patches are very awkward for dealing with
>certain kinds of changes, like moving files around, and the list of things
>needing such reorganization is growing. This will also simplify a few
>relatively drastic changes that might cause very bloated patches, e.g.
>the new inews.
I made the following suggestion once in e-mail, but as Henry didn't reply, I
suspect the mail got lost and he never got it.
I suggest that a "patch" to produce the cleanup release consist of two parts.
1) A shell script that accomplishes the reorganization, such as
making new directories
deleting things to be deleted
moving things that need to be moved
2) A normal context diff to produce new or changed things. Or, new
things could go into a shar/here-document in part (1), and just
the changes go in the context diffs.
This allows one to keep continuity, without overly bloating the patches.
Just a suggestion, but one that I hope will at least be considered.
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