[darcs-users] can we remove --no-pristine-tree?

Salvatore Insalaco kirby81 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 10:30:34 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:23:25 +0100, Petr Rockai wrote:
>> I can confirm that --no-pristine-tree is ignored for hashed repos. Whether
>> that's intentional or a bug, I can't tell. I'd consider it a documentation bug
>> at least (or commandline parsing, if you will, I'd expect darcs to at least
>> issue a warning that it is ignoring the flag).
>
> It seems like this is the kind of feature we can just remove altogether
> without causing much pain to our users.

Manually deleting the pristine directory, and then performing "darcs
repair" before using any darcs command, provides almost the same
experience.
So I'm all for removing it.

Salvatore


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