On 20/05/2019, 10:37, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote:
This is going in the right direction IMO.
Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH] Add TRACKING.IMPORTS to xen.git to more
easily manage imported files that need to be kept in sync with an upstream"):
> That makes perfect sense now. In that case, I tend to agree that "auto"
is probably not needed. Would be quite happy to drop it.
It will considerably complicate things to add a way to define
seddery. Let us leave that to a future extension.
That suggests that `manual' should become `file:'.
As for delimiters
> On 17/05/2019, 01:34, "Jan Beulich" <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote:
> > I am not sure what you mean, which colons? Are you saying, the
format should be
> > version: 1
> > repo: ...
>
> Yes. This would make it even more prominent that these are tags of
> some sort. But this was only a thought of mine, it's in no way meant
> to be a requirement I have.
It will make writing a parser easier if each entry is a single line
with the fields in a defined order and if we can say that a `repo:'
must precede every `file:' that mentions it.
That sounds perfectly sensible
Version 2 on its way, sometimes next week
Lars
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