Issue 1787: backwards-compatible alternative to Ignore-this for mandatory patch metadata

Title	backwards-compatible alternative to Ignore-this for mandatory patch metadata
Priority	feature	Status	given-up
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	WorldMaker, darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, kowey
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2010-03-22.16:07:41 by kowey, last changed 2017-07-30.23:48:37 by gh.

msg10416 (view)

Author: kowey

Date: 2010-03-22.16:07:36

This comes up from time to time.  It may be useful to have a good well
thought out format for adding mandatory metadata to patches.  

In the interests of medium-term backwards compatibility (ie. until Darcs
3), we would need to cram this into the patch long comment a la
Ignore-this.  But could we have some better thinking on the Ignore-this
itself, and more importantly about the stuff that goes behind it?

Requires discussion and a drive towards some sort of consensus

Related bugs:

 - issue1613 talks about an annotation scheme for *optional* information
 - issue1096 requests some sort of patch format mechanism to make Darcs
more future-proof wrt future patch formats

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-03-22 16:07:41	kowey	create
2010-03-22 16:28:13	dagit	set	nosy: - dagit
2017-07-30 23:48:37	gh	set	status: needs-reproduction -> given-up

Issue 1787 backwards-compatible alternative to Ignore-this for mandatory patch metadata