[darcs-users] An example of a "complicated" change?

[Trent W. Buck]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull at sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
> Darcs is incapable[1] of *representing* concurrent development, and
> therefore has no need of a notation for merge.  However, many projects
> consider this an essential feature for tracking the progress of work
> at a high level. [...]
>
> And of course Darcs *supports* concurrent work quite well.  It's just
> that it can't *report* it in a way that displays the concurrency.

That explanation makes a lot of sense to me, thanks.

> [1]  It's probably there in the log in some sense.  At least, there's
> no way in the Darcs UI to visualize a historical DAG now, and you'd
> need to do a fair amount of cross-repository work to reconstruct it.

camp-view can construct a dependency DAG (for camp), though this only
bears a little resemblance to the merge history.