[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Add "darcs inventory"

Tommy Pettersson ptp at lysator.liu.se
Fri May 6 16:29:38 PDT 2005


On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:06:02PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Tommy Pettersson:
> > Then I also am a bit curious for when and why people want
> > this command.  I know it has been requested.
> 
> Once per month, I believe. 8-)
> 
> > But what is a listing of the added files plus nonrecorded added
> > files good for?
> 
> I use this feature extensively in makefiles, to obtain a list of files
> which should be built.  Explicit file lists in makefiles are a
> constant source of merge conflicts, in my experience.  Just using
> what's in the working copy doesn't detect missing adds at build time,
> and risks broken records (been there, done that, although with other
> systems).

I see.  And it works to test compiles before the record.
That's clever.  I must try it some time.



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Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>




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