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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Petr Rockai writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
 > >  > possibly also support for reading such repositories, eventually.
 > >
 > > Not in our lifetime, please.  Bazaar got this right (despite the fact
 > > that their proliferation of repo formats is insane).
 > Well, the idea is that it's pretty trivial to have repair just add back the
 > pristine tree and remove _darcs/pristine.none. Documenting that fact somehow
 > should be easy as well, so you get to remove code and you do not lock out
 > anyone by accident.
 > 
 > Looking at the no-pristine code, all it does is that on every operation, it
 > builds up pristine.temp and uses that, removing it after the operation.

Then what's the problem with supporting it by doing exactly "have
repair just add back the pristine tree and remove _darcs/pristine.none"?