[darcs-devel] [issue256] another bug in get_extra commuting patch: with example repos

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:43:13PM +0200, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> * David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> [2008-01-11 12:42:31 -0500]:
> > Well, currently the conversion to darcs-2 requires a bottleneck, in which
> > only *one* repository is converted (i.e. all other branches get lopped
> > off).  I think this is reasonable, as the transition to darcs-2 is always
> > going to require a "flag day" in any case, when a project switches
> > repository format, and I haven't been able to come up with a realistic
> > scenario in which this would pose a real problem.
> 
> On some of my projects we have long-running branches that are never
> merged back into the "mainline" (although changes from the mainline are
> pushed out to these branches); this isn't an issue for me anymore,
> because these projects will have been retired before darcs-2 is even
> released, but perhaps other people have this kind of workflow.

As long as there's only one such branch, there's no problem (unless there
are conflicts): you just convert that branch, and then reconstruct mainline
by obliterating all the patches that shouldn't be there.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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