[darcs-users] Re: discussing 'darcs unpull --tag' and best practices for a production rollback

[Jamie Webb]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:53:22AM +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> On 2005-01-07, Jamie Webb <j at jmawebb.cjb.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm... sounds like an argument for uploading releases using rsync
> > rather than darcs.
> 
> I'm listening. How would rsync making it easier to roll back production
> to a previous tag? 

Darcs makes it easy to add new patches to a repo, but hard to remove
them (i.e. you can't propagate unpulls). By having your production
repo offline, you are free to take as much time as necessary to mess
about with unpulling, and then when you are satisfied you can release
all the changes (which may be in either direction) with a single rsync
command.

-- Jamie Webb