[darcs-users] [darcs-devel] [issue1039] wish: detect seemingly unrelated repositories

[Jason Dagit]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:13 PM, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:30:35AM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> David Roundy <bugs at darcs.net> writes:
>>
>> > Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> added the comment:
>> >
>> >> I often use darcs init and then darcs pull rather than darcs get,
>> >> and also share common setup patches (like versioning the boring
>> >> file) between different repositories. So both the "unique token"
>> >> and the "no common patches" heuristics wouldn't work very well in
>> >> my use cases. It's not a big deal though.
>> >
>> > The "no common patches" heuristic would obviously need to check
>> > whether there are any patches at all.  That's not a hard check.
>>
>> Still, there'll be some manual override, won't be?  Occasionally I do
>> need to pull between unrelated repositories.
>
> It would only be a warning prompt at most.

I was thinking about Ganesh's case.  We should also make an override
switch that can be placed in defaults for people that don't want this
check.

Jason