Re: GNU Arch and Lua

[Benno <benjl@...>]

On Fri Oct 29, 2004 at 11:54:26 +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The Lua community does seem very fond of creating patches to do various
>things to Lua in domain-specific areas which are subsequently offered to
>others; often in the form of plain-old-diff files.
>
>The Lua-users Wiki has a good example of this -- namely the PowerPatches
>pages.
>
>GNU Arch is a powerful change management system. It's not desperately
>user-friendly (In fact, in some ways it's downright unfriendly) but it
>does have the rather nice feature that it is designed to allow for
>cherry-picked patching in a safe way.
>
>I am proposing to maintain a "canonical" lua tree in GNU Arch which will
>provide therefore globally unique "ids" for all the files in the lua
>distribution.
>
>What this means is that if everyone 'tags' (branches) off the central
>repository for doing their own patches, then we can all cherry-pick and
>share patches without worrying about issues like "do I already have this
>patch"

Works for me. I already maintain my own canonical branch and have my own
actual branch with changes tagged of that. So yeah, I'd definately be 
patching of an official one if it existing.

Benno