Re: [PATCH] The diff-raw format updates.

On Sun, 22 May 2005, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

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 - in all other cases: if the file is new, prepend a "+", if the file is 
   old, prepend a "*", and if the file goes away, prepend a "-". In other 
   words, the actual pathname (if it exists) always starts at the second
   character and is always prepended by _something_ (ie there is no 
   ambiguoity with pathnames that start in -/+/*).

I guess that this is only on human readable but not on the machine
format, right?

The machine readable format has the same issue: it needs to be able to 
distinguish between a "copy" (where the source remains) and a "rename" 
(where the source is removed). So you still need the "*/-" thing, and then 
you're better off doing "+" and "/" too in the machine-readable format, to 
make the differences be as small as possible _and_ to avoid confusion if a 
pathname starts with '*' or '-'.

		Linus