[darcs-users] Patches are immutable

[Florian Weimer]

* David Roundy:

> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:46:01PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>> > I think that rerecord doesn't break immutability of patches. AFAICS, it
>> > records the patch again, with a different time, so a different
>> > identity.
>> 
>> After checking -- you're right.  It looks like rerecord is slightly less
>> evil than I thought.
>
> I do think that rerecord is a valuable tool--it just needs to *not* be used
> when a patch has already been pulled by others, just as unrecord and unpull
> must not be used on patches that have already left home.

"rerecord" is certainly better than tweaking the file system directly.
If the repository structure is somewhat transparent, some users will
certainly go down to the file system level to fix stupid mistakes.