[darcs-users] post-1.0: "isolated directories"?
Andrew Pimlott
andrew at pimlott.net
Mon Oct 11 19:59:26 UTC 2004
Two more thoughts on this idea:
1. The ability to check out a subdir of the tree is a "checklist" item
for version control systems (eg, see SCM comparison[1]), for
whatever that's worth. Allowing this only when the subdir has been
isolated in advance is partial credit.
2. David gave the example of isolating wxwindows architecture-specific
parts. However, if you made a change to "core" code that required
updating all architectures (not uncommon), you would have to break
that change into multiple patches to accomodate the isolation, which
would be awkward and less useful that a single patch.
Andrew
[1] http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html#work_on_dir
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