[darcs-users] time stamps

Zack Brown zbrown at tumblerings.org
Mon Jul 21 14:22:48 UTC 2003


Hi,

I see that darcs keeps track of time-stamps on each user's machine, as a way
of resolving certain tricky merging problems quickly. Larry McVoy and other
folks have suggested that this is not a robust solution, and that actually,
the logic required to solve these problems must be a lot more subtle, and
must completely ignore time-stamp information.

I realize that darcs allows users to turn off the time-stamp dependency,
but it seems to me that widespread usage of darcs will involve almost
everyone turning off the time-stamp dependency, in order to avoid the
problems Larry describes.

Wouldn't it be better to ditch the whole time-stamp thing right off the
bat, and just go with the more robust solution by default?

Be well,
Zack

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Zack Brown




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