[Gnu-arch-users] Re: 'arch send' format

[Andreas Rottmann]

Amit Shah <address@hidden> writes:

> We could have a shell script with a normal patch that shows changes within
> files. For representing changes to the file structure (like renames,
> deletes, etc.), we could put shell commands like "mv foo.h bar.h" and so
> on, so that patches created by people using arch for people using other
> systems (or even arch, but don't want to "get" the changesets from some
> archive) can be applied normally.
>
I actually have an "exporter" that produces such a script. It's a bit
of Scheme code and can be found in ITLA (http://yi.org/rotty/ITLA).

Andy
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