[darcs-devel] Re: A darcs that can pull from git

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Sat Apr 30 11:24:06 PDT 2005


> Indeed, a retract sounds like a good goal.  This loss of patch ordering
> would mean that the same darcs patch could show up as two distinct commits
> in git, if I understand you right? But when it got back to darcs again, it
> would be a single patch?

No, it means that if you pull into darcs and push back into git, the
ordering of the patches may have changed.  The two sequences will
still be Darcs-equivalent, of course, up to commutation.

The strong ordering properties of Git is what I'm losing by not
``tagging like crazy''.

                                        Juliusz




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