[darcs-users] best practices: recommended way to create a branch?

Taral taral at taral.net
Mon Oct 18 16:53:19 UTC 2004


On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:47:57PM +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> If a darcs working directory is up to date, is it reasonable
> just to do a "cp -r" to create a branch?
> 
> Or is it better to work through darcs and 'init' 
> the new branch and pull or get the changes?

It's better to use darcs get with the two-argument version, because it
will try to hard-link the patches, saving space. The new repo will also
be sure to only have recorded prefs set.

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