[darcs-users] darcs patch: make unit's return value depend on all tests

[Florent Becker]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Eric Kow writes:
> 
>  > > By the way, this is a very very cool use case for commutation
>  > > rather than git/hg history manipulation!
>  > 
>  > Great to hear the world still make sense :-)  I guess git/hg folks
>  > would probably say that they could just as easily rebase the patches or
>  > something.
> 
> Equally likely, they'd say "use Mercurial queues/Stacked Git/quilt".
> IMO, that's the real competition for Darcs (in terms of patch theory;
> for simply tracking history of a branch, Darcs's user interface is
> still ahead of the competition, but git is catching up fast).

I didn't know these, and after looking at it, i don't think they would have
allowed me to do what i did: take an existing "blessed" history, and
shuffle it "as much as possible while avoiding conflicts". But they sure
look like patch theory under a disguise. The concept of "unapplied patch"
in particular might be worth stealing.

Florent