Lobbying for -p1 diffs

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:19:16AM -0600 I heard the voice of
John Arbash Meinel, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I don't care whether we use ., -, {}, whatever to denote it. I don't
> think we want to use the revision id. But I think we can add just a
> little bit of information that people might find useful.

You don't have to do this in the path name; you could do it later in
the per-file header lines, like CVS does:

-----------
--- gencgi.pl   15 May 2003 21:16:42 -0000      1.1
+++ gencgi.pl   15 May 2003 21:25:25 -0000      1.3
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