[darcs-users] domains: a proposal for composing repositories

[Marnix Klooster]

Jamie Webb wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:32:05AM -0800, John Meacham wrote:
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>>darcs is just about perfect except for one thing, not having a straightforward
>>way to compose repositories. I know this issue has been discussed quite a bit
>>but I think I have a very lightweight proposal to mitigate this problem.
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>While I agree that some sort of support for multiple projects would be
>very useful, this implementation has already been proposed, discussed,
>and another one chosen. No-one ever wrote the code though:
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>http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/3304
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John,

I'm not understanding your proposal yet, and I won't have much time to 
try.  But could you explain whether your proposal conflicts with the one 
Jamie is referring to?  And if it doesn't conflict, how much more 
difficult would it make the user's understanding of darcs if both were 
implemented?

The reason I ask, is because simplicity is a major goal for darcs, and 
David's proposal in the thread Jamie mentions seems like a good one to 
me.  Ultimately someone might get around to it.

(I  know you know, but for any others who spent time searching: the post 
where David makes his proposal is

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/3464

It's the part about adding new patch types "addsubrepo" etc., near the end.)

Groetjes,
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Marnix