[darcs-users] New user experiences

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Jamie Webb wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:30:33AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > On  2 Sep 2004, Jamie Webb <j at jmawebb.cjb.net> wrote:
> > > I've just today converted two of my projects over from CVS to Darcs,
> > > and overall it's looking like a great improvement. The repository ==
> > > working directory model seems very flexible. However, I just thought
> > > I'd mention a few of the small annoyances I've had:
> > > 
> > > - 'darcs whatsnew -l' does not distinguish between already added (but
> > >   unrecorded) files and files I might want to add. Likewise 'darcs add
> > >   --list-options'. I find the 'cvs update' behaviour of marking
> > >   unknown files with '?' quite useful.
> > 
> > "darcs whatsnew" shows you the files that will be added; "darcs
> > whatsnew --look" shows you all the files that look like they should be
> > added.
> 
> I'm quite aware of that. The problem is that unless I fancy writing
> both outputs to files and diffing them (a route I may yet take...), I
> can't discover the set of files that haven't yet been added, but which
> I might want to add (or I might want to mark them as boring), i.e.
> those files about which Darcs does not yet have any information.

Yep, I would also prefer the way of CVS here. If darcs doesn't know about
a file it should tell me so that I can declare it either as boring or as
part of the project.