[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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