[darcs-users] 'Darcs' Theory of Patches Isn't Useful'

[Dan Pascu]

On Friday 09 January 2009, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > http://jfm3-repl.blogspot.com/2009/01/darcs-theory-of-patches-isnt-us
> >eful.html
> >
> > "The "theory of patches" proposed in the Darcs documentation is a
> > nice slick theory, but not particularly useful to programmers. It is
> > generally impossible to programmaticly determine whether one patch
> > must precede another in the revision tree of source code for any
> > reasonably complex program. As Tom Moertel describes, it's
> > equivalently useful (if not more so) to rebase your code against a
> > known good order of patches, rather than to attempt relatively tricky
> > merges over the partial order of patches."
>
> Pretentious blogger makes authoritative statements about things he
> hasn't got the vaguest idea about.  News at eleven.

Heh, well put. My thoughts exactly.

-- 
Dan