[darcs-users] best practices for vendor branches?

[Korusef]

On 6/23/06, Christopher League <league at contrapunctus.net> wrote:
> One thing for which I still rely on subversion is tracking vendor
> releases (not directly from their repository, but from their release
> tarballs, as described here:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html
> In my case, this is mostly for keeping local customizations, things
> that will probably never be incorporated upstream.

I think it's covered in the FAQ:
http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-536aa639473af7911a3601b20c5ad55d7dfb8a09
although it might not be obvious.

So get the first tarball, import it in the darcs repository.
For the next tarball just copy _darcs in the directory and record all
changes as one patch.
Don't forget --look-for-adds in the repord option
and make sure to mark binaries.

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Zdravi Korusef [Libor Dener]
            (: CauCau :)