Re: PATCH thoughts...

Jamie Lokier wrote:

> I agree, there isn't a suitable "winner" at this time.
> 
> What does DAV + Delta-V propose at the moment?

Nothing.

 From a simple DAV p.o.v., simulating file i/o (skip, write, truncate) 
may be enough.

DeltaV probably would benefit more from a "true" patch format, such as 
gdiff.

Note that the former case seems to be a subset of the latter.

> The obvious format for PATCH is to pick the same format that can be
> _fetched_, CVS-style, to update a workspace.  Is that in Delta-V?

No. But it maybe in Subversion. Is a Subversion developer following this 
thread? Greg S.?

> Another capability to aim for is a patch format that is helpful for
> resolving fuzzy matches in a 3-way merge in the same way as CVS-style
> merging -- again, choose the same as Delta-V.

Yep, but that's something we don't want as REQUIRED support. Let's focus 
on the simple things first, and then let extensibility take care of the 
rest.

> Finally, it would be nice to have VCDIFF-style compression integrated,
> although compressing normal patches works ok so it's not that important.

If normal HTTP compression works fine, there's no reason to complicate 
the method.

Regards, Julian

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