[darcs-devel] Conversion to darcs-3

Ganesh Sittampalam ganesh at earth.li
Fri Oct 11 06:12:53 UTC 2019


[Sorry for the messed up quoting in the previous copy of this reply
(Thunderbird's handling of quoting in plain-text emails really confuses me)]

Hi,

> I don't think so. We can try to commute patches in a different order. In
> case a dependency has already been commuted past /and/ is no longer part
> of that repo (i.e. has been obliterated or amended) we'll have to fail,
> but I guess this is not the typical scenario.

If the commute succeeds in two different repos, then can't the same v2
patch could produce v3 patches with different implicit dependencies?
That doesn't feel like it would end well.

Cheers,

Ganesh


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