Re: cannot use darcs to control my systems-config because darcs diff doesnt work if darcs repos is (yes, i mean root)

On 2005-01-28 18:09:29 +0100, Sean Perry <shaleh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> Thies C. Arntzen wrote:
> > i can see a few ways of making this work -
> >
> > - change [repos]-old, [repos]-new to old-[repos] and [new]-repos(*)
> > - change the dash '-' to some other character
> > - add a double dash to the comman-line of diff so that it "know" that 
> > the following args are files/folder (only works with gnu diff)
> This form of marking the end of the dash-parameters should be 
> preferred. diff is not too much of an issue, but commands like rm and 
> the like can easily be confused by names like '-force'.
hi,
don't you think that (a) [ "new-repos" instead of "repos-new" ] would 
be the safest bet as not all utilities are guaranteed to understand 
'--'.
re, tc