[darcs-devel] Re: darcs patch: make dangers and recommended use of "Amend" clearer in...

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:31:12PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> >> I have not checked that this faked race condition can happen
> >> in reality, but since Pull doesn't lock the repo, "anything"
> >> could happen if the repo is altered concurrently.
> 
> I'm surprised.  I was convinced that amend is the equivalent of
> unrecord followed with record.
> 
> > 2 possible solutions that spring to mind are:
> 
> I wouldn't bother -- people who use amend-record are supposed to know
> what they're doing.

Oh, sorry, I wasn't following the thread properly. I was really talking
about things that reorder patches in the repo, like
optimise --reorder-patches.


Thanks
Ian