[darcs-users] Re: Onto which other patches does a patch depend?

[Mark Stosberg]

On 2005-01-08, David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> wrote:
>
> It's mostly the implementation of rollback that is bad.  I think it really
> should create a brand new patch that has its own identity.  Or perhaps it
> shouldn't create a patch at all, and should only affect the working
> directory, and then you'd have to record a patch that has those changes in
> it.  

I like the idea of being able to give a new name to a rolled back patch.

> The only advantage of the current implementation is that two people
> independently rolling back the same patch doesn't generate a conflict.

And I think the primary issue with that is probably darcs performance
issues which hopefully will improve a lot soon. :)

It seems like ought to be a way to realize that two lines that have been
changed to have the same result aren't conflicting. 

    Mark

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