svn or arch

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:21:10PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> First, I think it's wacky to maintain patch files in revision control.
> If you want to look back at history, you're looking at a diff of a diff,
> which is just incomprehensible.  The right way to do this in my opinion
> is to have each patch be a direct branch of the upstream source.  If you
> have patch interdependencies, then you create a new branch which merges
> from the interdependent branches, just like how you have to adjust the
> patch files now.

It would be neat if I could do:

Patch: cvs://cvs.fedora.fedhat.com/....