[darcs-devel] [issue1281] 'move' order in darcs chan --xml -s

[Miklos Vajna]

New submission from Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org>:

Hi,

Let's say you create a repo:

dr init
echo a > a
dr add a 
dr rec (1)
dr mv a b
rm b
dr rec (2)
echo a > a
echo b > b
dr add a b
dr rec (3)
rm b
dr rec (4)
dr mv a b
dr amend-rec (4)

Basically create two special patches.

(2) is about: rename A B, remove B - so B was not in the repo and after
the patch A won't be either.

(4) is about: remove B, rename A B - so A and B were in the repo and
after the patch only B will be, with the contents of A.

So you can see the order of remove and move matters a lot.

Now if you do a darcs changes --xml -s, then you *always* get the moves
first, so you can't decide what situation are you in.

The solution would be to leave the "move" commands where they are
physically in the patch and not move them to the top.

Thanks.

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title: 'move' order in darcs chan --xml -s

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