[darcs-users] Centralized Darcs usage

Sébastien Pierre sebastien at xprima.com
Fri Apr 21 14:05:52 UTC 2006


Le jeudi 20 avril 2006 à 21:28 -0300, zooko at zooko.com a écrit :

> Darcs doesn't do this for you, but of course it doesn't prevent you from
> accomplishing this by use of email, wiki, instant messenging, shouting across
> the office, and so forth.
> 
> You could even use darcs for this kind of communication by putting a note at
> the top of the file "I AM SEBASTIEN AND I AM EDITING THIS FILE RIGHT NOW.".
> But I would recommend one of the above techniques instead.

I would prefere here to be able to extend Darcs with a specific command,
like "darcs watch repo/file", to have a list of users working on the
file.

> > 2) Is it possible to work only on a subset of a repository ? For  
> > instance, if I have a large project (hundreds of subdirs, large  
> > tree), can I "cherry-pick" a particular subdirectory, make it my  
> > working directory and then push my changes back to the "main"  
> > repository ?

...

> 3.  Patches flow from the separate project repositories into the unified
> all-in-one repository, but they do not flow the other way!  (Technically, they
> *can* flow the other way, and darcs will actually handle it rather nicely, but
> it is a simpler workflow for everyone to understand to Just Not Do That.)

How would one "flow the other way" ? Could you give an example ?

 -- Sébastien






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