[darcs-users] Re: request for clarification of 'get' docs

Mark Stosberg mark at summersault.com
Fri Dec 3 01:31:02 UTC 2004


On 2004-12-02, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>>   "The only catch is that the first time you run darcs push or darcs pull from
>>    any of these second copies, by default they will access your first
>>    copy--which may not be what you want.
>
>> I think the key bit to clarify here is the word /access/. This is
>> phrased in such as way that there might be a problem. What's the
>> problem. :) What are the possible negative side-effects of this access?
>> And exactly does 'access' mean here?
>
> It means that when you do darcs push or pull, it will work against
> your master clone instead of the upstream original.  That's because of
> the way _darcs/defaultrepo is being set in the secondary clones.

Thanks for the answer Juliusz.

I'm still not sure I see the implications of this, though. What exactly
could go wrong (or be unexpected)? 

    Mark

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