[darcs-users] Re: Where Arch is going

Ketil Malde ketil.malde at bccs.uib.no
Mon Jun 6 07:32:26 UTC 2005


John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> writes:

> On 2005-06-03, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:
>> I'd say that there are three things that are good about darcs:

Maybe it's included in your first point, but low starting threshold
with lightweight installation and repository creation (no need to
configure a server) is also a definite plus.

> While we're at it, I've never quite understood the utility of
> amend-record, unrecord, etc.  It seems that they would likely cause
> major breakage if used on a repo that anyone else ever pulls or pushes
> to/from.  What is the usage scenario for them, and what makes them so
> very useful?

I think you're pretty much on target.  It's very useful in a private
repo when you record something and discover that there was a couple of
more things that belonged in that patch.  Without amend, I would have
a lot of messages like "oops, I forgot this in the last patch" in my
logs. 

But yes, if you amend or unrecord something somebody has pulled,
you're probably going to make a mess.

-kzm
-- 
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