Generting patches or updates that affect tree structure.

[Peter McNab <mc...@melbpc.org.au>]

Hi

Reading in the manual I see that patches cannot alter the tree 
structure, so how does one propagate changes which for instance add a 
extra directory and file set?

Peter

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Re: Generting patches or updates that affect tree structure.

[John Peacock <jp...@rowman.com>]

Peter McNab wrote:
> Reading in the manual I see that patches cannot alter the tree 
> structure, so how does one propagate changes which for instance add a 
> extra directory and file set?

[this is really a users@ question]

The patch file format has no problem with directory/file additions.  It 
cannot handle renames or directory deletes, however.  If you really need 
that, you can use SVK:

	http://svk.elixus.org

which includes a binary block to a conventional diff file (which patch 
helpfully ignores) which can contain more complex tree operations.

John

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