[darcs-devel] [issue1039] wish: detect seemingly unrelated repositories

Eric Kow bugs at darcs.net
Thu Aug 28 09:47:41 UTC 2008


Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> added the comment:

Quoting Simon PJ from issue1026:

Something like that, yes.  The point is this: if darcs falls over saying "bug in
get_extra" then my reaction is "Darcs is unreliable and I should stop using it".
 If it says politely "You are trying to merge patches from one repository into
an utterly different one; you've probably got the wrong prefs/defaultrepo" or
something like that, then I think "Oh I'm being an idiot, how great Darcs is".

You see the difference?  How it's achieved is a different matter.

Incidentally, even if Darcs *doesn't* crash, I *still don't* want to
accidentally merge 10,000 patches from ghc's repo into libraries/array.  Yes, it
might in principle be do-able, but I really want Darcs to say "this looks silly
to me, are you really sure you want to do this?".

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