[darcs-users] Feature request: better scripting support.

[David Brown]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:21:50AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:

> Some of this you cat acheive via the sparsely-documented --pipe option,
> which tells darcs to run in a mode in which it expects to receive its input
> via a pipe.  It still prompts you, so you can run in --pipe mode
> interactively to see what it asks for.  Most notably, since pipe mode is
> designed for conversions like this, the date is asked for, rather than just
> using the current date.

Excellent.

> There isn't any way to specify dependencies as an option, but I'm not sure
> how useful this feature is in practice... I've almost never seen it used,
> or used it myself.  Did you have some plan in mind for determining the
> dependencies that you would specify?

I think it only applies to the Vim code.  Bram is very good about
specifying dependencies in his patches.  Each of his patches is
numbered, and he lists previous patches that it depends on.  This would
map well to darcs dependencies.

Dave