Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add TRACKING.IMPORTS to xen.git to more easily manage imported files that need to be kept in sync with an upstream

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> 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.

Ian.

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