Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

[Ian Jackson]

Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]"):
> Sure, an extensible syntax sounds great.  The problem is that we kind of
> had one (Vcs-Git was a subset of a git checkout command line, which
> allowed support of the -b option), but this (if I understand it correctly)
> is a whole new type of thing that I don't think corresponds to any git
> command-line flags.

By "extensible" I meant "new information can be added in a way that
will be ingored by existing parsers".

> It's kind of hard to design an extensible format with any well-defined
> meaning if we don't know what sorts of things people will want to add via
> extensions....

That's why the syntax should have gaps as I describe above.

Ian.