[darcs-devel] Idea: a new type of patch

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Sat Apr 30 06:51:31 PDT 2005


> I'd rather not introduce a new equivalent patch type in memory, and I don't
> think we have to.

[...]

> Hunk !Int ([PackedString], Maybe PackedString)
>           ([PackedString], Maybe PackedString)

Lazy evaluation is magic.

> In order to really benefit from this, I think we'd need a new on-disk
> format,

Yes.  However, the Git backend will automagically benefit from that as
soon as diff_from_empty generates compact patches, and so will Darcs
imports.  So if anyone is in a hacking mood, go for it now.

                                        Juliusz




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