[darcs-devel] darcs patch: fix commutation of addition and move patches.

[Eric Y. Kow]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 18:05:07 -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> This is another one of those semantics-altering changes, like the
> commute_nameconflict patch I just sent.  In this case, I'm changing
> it so that a file rename patch depends on the addition of that file.

Makes sense to me (how was the previous behaviour supposed to reduce
conflicts?)

In any case, I don't forsee this actually biting anyone.

For that matter, I guess that when we talk about 'danger'; we're
referring to at least two things: (1) the behaviour is bad in itself and
(2) it does evil things with previously existing repositories.  Were you
talking about one of these things in particular?  I would guess the
latter, although naively, it seems that restricting the commutability
(commutativity?) of patches 'only' results in people having more trouble
performing merges than before, and cherry picking being less flexible.
Am I missing something important?

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Eric Kow                     http://www.loria.fr/~kow
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