[darcs-users] Re: Suggestion: track patch origin metadata

Mark Stosberg mark at summersault.com
Fri Oct 22 17:09:24 UTC 2004


On 2004-10-22, Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> I think there are two kinds of repos (at least).  One where
> you work and want total flexibility to unrecord and rerecord
> anything.  The other where you preserve history and tag old
> versions, and not ever (should) want to change history.
>
> A very simple kind of safety guard would be to have a lock
> (or mutate) state on repos, perhaps marked with a special
> file in _darcs/prefs.  Its presence would (dis)allow unpull,
> unrecord, and rerecord on that repo.

I agree supporting the distinction between a "working repo" and an
"archive repo" would also be useful.

	Mark





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