Re: [PATCH - stgit] Patch to allow import of compressed files

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Karl Hasselström [off-list ref] wrote:

If there's just one patch in the tar file, why did you use a tar file
in the first place instead of just gzipping?

I guess mostly habbit :P. Whenever I zip something I create a gzipped
tarball because that's how I usually do it.

I'm pretty sure that anyone who really has use for the tar-file
capability would be using tar files with multiple patches in them.

Yeah, I guess that's true for most people indeed.

I was refering to the fact that due to tar-files in the general case
containing more than one patch, you'd have to modify the parts of
imprt.py that deal with importing multiple patches at once, in
addition to the parts the current patch touches.

Mhhh, yeah, but should be something like
for patch in patches
  applyPatch(patch)

But you're probably right that the amount of additional work would not
be much more than what went into the current patch.

To just support .tar, yeah, but let's see what the author has to say
about this ;).

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier