[darcs-users] Newbie questions, Nested Repositories

[Andrew Wagner]

>> Ah.  If I already have repos /home/jch/A/B, can I safely create a 
>> repos
>> /home/jch/A around the existing repository?  Does darcs basically 
>> treat
>> any directory containing a _darcs subdirectory as boring?
>
> Yes and no, to the two questions.  Nested repositories are fine, but 
> darcs
> doesn't treat directories containing a _darcs subdirectory as
> boring--although that's not a bad idea.  So if you create nested
> repositories, you probably don't want to use --look-for-adds.  I never 
> use
> --look-for-adds anyways, so for me it's a non-issue.

Whoa, I hadn't noticed the --look-for-adds flag for whatsnew... Should 
a command for getting information really be able to change the state of 
the repository?  Are there a lot of people using this?

So if you have repositories A and B nested inside a repository C, 
moving a file from A to B would result in recording a delete file patch 
in one repository and an add file patch in the other, with the 
super-repository C not even noticing the difference?

If you have the repository and wish to turn one of its sub-directories 
into a repository, what is recommended?  (i.e. do you need to remove 
the files from the super-repository before creating the sub-repository, 
or will darcs init do that for you, or is it just not a problem for 
some reason?

Thanks,
Drew

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