[darcs-users] Problems getting started

[Dustin Sallings]

On Aug 17, 2004, at 1:47, Scott L. Burson wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.  You know, I read that part of the manual, and I 
> even
> started to do it the right way, and then scratched my head and said, 
> "wait,
> this can't be right".  One thing that puzzles me still, and might have
> contributed to my confusion last night, is the fact that `add' takes a
> `--repodir' option.  What does it do?

	It allows you to add things relatively without changing directories, I 
guess.  --repodir makes more sense in other commands such as ``apply'' 
which will apply a patch received out-of-band to a repository (again, 
without having to cd).  This is used in the mail -> repository 
gateways.

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Dustin Sallings