Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:03:16 -0400
Aaron Bentley [off-list ref] wrote:

In Bazaar bundles, the text of the diff is an integral part of the data.
It is used to generate the text of all the files in the revision.

Bazaar bundles were designed to be used on mailing lists.  So you can
review the changes from the diff, comment on them, and if it seems
suitable, merge them.

Perhaps I missed something in the earlier mails about this feature.
As I understood it, the email sent has a combined diff that shows
the net effect of all the commits included in the bundle.  (Whereas
the current Cogito version only shows a diffstat)

If the recipient of such a bundle is unable to extract the diff of
each separate commit included in the bundle then I can't see any
value in the feature at all.  But showing a combined diff in the
email may have marginal value, so long as when the bundle is 
imported into the recipient repository the individual commits
are available.

It's my understanding that most changes discussed on lkml are provided
as a series of patches.  Bazaar bundles are intended as a direct
replacement for patches in that use case.

A combined diff of a bunch of changes would usually be most _unwelcome_
for review on lkml.  The constant refrain is to ask people to split their
changes up into smallish individual patches for review.

Sean