[darcs-users] Re: yet another feature request for darcs diff

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:54:45PM +0300, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> 
> first of all, thanks for implementing 'darcs diff'.

You're welcome!  :)

> Have you considered the possibility of prepending a header to the
> generated patch explaining what changes it is supposed to make (listing
> the patch names?), who wrote them and their comments (something
> resembling a changelog?). In other words, a natural-language resembling
> presentation of the information contained in the darcs-patch headers.

Hmmm.  I never thought about that, but it sounds like a reasonable idea.
It also could share considerable code with some sort of an auto-changelog
generator, which seems like it also could be nice.  I'll consider that on
the TODO list (but I'm on vacation right now...).

> (examples: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104926882224687&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105473425703109&w=2)
> 
> Also, adding -N to the default diff flags seems like a good idea.

Hmmm.  It does sound like a good idea, but would there be any easy way to
turn it off? Or perhaps noone really would be interested in turning it off?
I sort of like the flexibility of the current system (except that you can't
specify an alternate diff program yet...).
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/