On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:13:22PM +0200, Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 06:16:20AM -0700, Kevin Smith wrote:
> > Personally, I view this as the biggest problem with darcs. At a minimum,
> > I want the SCM to manage the collection of branches (darcs does not). I
> > really *don't* want a whole new repository for each branch. After using
> > darcs successfully for several months, I have now stopped, due
> > primarily[1] to that issue.
>
> I just got an idea. Patches are never deleted in
> _darcs/patches/, so if _darcs/inventor* was swapped among a
> couple of configurations -- voila!
>
> *trying it out...*
...
> So, now I got another idea. Make the _darcs/patches/ dir a
> symlink to /some/where/COMMON_PATCH_DIR/.
>
> *trying again...*
Alas, both these tricks will fail in non-trivial circumstances, since the
meaning of a patch is dependent on its context, so you can't use the
contents of one _darcs/patches with another _darcs/inventor*. :(
--
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org
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