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

[Albert Reiner]

["Jason M. Felice" <jfelice at cronosys.com>, Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:53:59 -0500]:
>                                             My impression (and I don't
> presume to have any weight around here, granted) is that this is way too
> specific a thing to get into the darcs code.

+1

Furthermore, if you don't want to have patches spanning different
"domains", then every domain should be its own repo IMO.  If you want
to "use" something from a different domain, set up a Makefile / hook /
whatever-is-appropriate-for-your-workflow that makes some symlinks,
hardlinks, copies etc..

Albert.


P.S.: But I like the concept of a domain as a label for a set of files
      (or even lines?).  E.g., it might be attractive to say `darcs
      replace --domain foo old new`, with commutation behavior that is
      more flexible than the current one where we can only restrict
      the replacement to explicitly listed files.