[darcs-devel] Re: [darcs-users] Another apology of switch

Taral taral at taral.net
Tue Sep 21 14:16:10 PDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 08:47:50AM +0200, Peter Strand wrote:
> Normally, a repository adress points to both an inventory and a patch
> source. With this addition, we can point darcs to other places it should
> look for patches in.
> Taking it one step further, the "inventory" adress might just point to
> an inventory file, not a repo.
> Then branches would just be represented by (inventory) files we can
> point to.

Unfortunately this doesn't work. A file in _darcs/patches is useless
without its associated inventory, since the inventory file describes the
context of the patch.

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