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

[Eric Kow]

Hi Juliusz!

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 21:03:47 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> I'm the original author of this feature, and I still believe it's a good
> idea.  FWIW, I do use it extensively.

So some points to consider:

- it doesn't work with hashed (and therefore darcs 2) repositories

- making it work with hashed repositories might take a lot of effort
  (or not?)

- old fashioned repositories should be considered deprecated

- the --no-pristine-tree flag was eventually removed, the incident
  being some documentation decisions we had to take, and my thinking
  being to obviate the decision by getting rid of what looked to be
  a dead feature (sorry)... (dead because of the above points)
  
- we /could/ perhaps implement --no-working-directory, which is
  conceptually cleaner for push-only repositories, in my opinion
  http://bugs.darcs.net/issue431 

- on the other hand, for hashed repositories --no-working-directory
  would be less transparent than a hypothetical --no-pristine-tree,
  because of our internal gobbledegooky filenames... we would have
  to do something like darcs show contents and darcs show files to
  retrieve files, yuck :-(

What should we do?

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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