[darcs-devel] status of darcsden repo
Ganesh Sittampalam
ganesh at earth.li
Fri Feb 21 23:21:40 UTC 2020
On 21/02/2020 21:34, Ben Franksen wrote:
>> It's not clear where Darcs is going.
>
> I cannot speak for Ganesh, but for me it is very clear. I want it to
> become the tool of choice for the discriminating hacker!
Me too, at least ideally/eventually. But along the way I have a few
specific targets:
- Make life better for existing users
- Attract back users we've lost primarily because of the network effect
- Attract users who don't actually use darcs as their VCS but can still
benefit from "patch theory" in other ways
> A bit more long-term [...]
Some of the features I'm really interested in adding:
- a good git bridge
- using darcs patches in innovative ways, e.g. for code review and
conflict resolution (regardless of the underlying VCS)
- using commuting to produce a better "bisect"
- making the darcsden UI much richer, e.g.:
- recording multiple patches simultaneously
- an interactive rebase that helps with joining/splitting/force
commuting
- checking that all intermediate states of a draft patch sequence
are valid
I haven't made much progress though...
Ganesh
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