[darcs-users] Re: current status of darcs

[Emilio Lopes]

Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen <at> xemacs.org> writes:

> git is the SCM used by the Linux kernel developers.  I tried Darcs for
> a while, but find git more usable at present.  git is dumb but fast; I
> am (relatively speaking) smart but slow.  It's a marriage made in
> heaven.   Even Darcs's incremental commit is dispensable (mostly
> because Stefan Monnier's diff-mode.el is a more than adequate
> substitute in daily use, and essential when dissecting megapatches).

I guess this is off-topic here, but could you explain how do you use
`diff-mode' for this?  By "incremental commit" I understand that one can
make many, some even unrelated, changes to the work area and then choose at
commit-time which ones should be checked in.

Thanks in advance.