[darcs-users] What if darcs is generating too inclusive of hunks?

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:41:10AM -0600, Brian Smith wrote:
> I have also experienced cases where darcs seems to generate patches with
> too many "false" changes.
> 
> Imagine that I was holding a repository in Darcs and Subversion at the same
> time. Then, I think it is reasonable to say that, if the patches Darcs
> generates are more noisy than the ones CVS and Subversion generates, then
> that should be considered a bug in Darcs. I have never had any notable
> problems with the way that Subversion's diff works, which is why I think it
> is a good benchmark. This is analogous to the GHC performance metric (If GHC
> is not faster than everything else, then a bug should be filed).

What do you mean by noisy? Or "false" changes? I have no idea what you are
talking about (which would make it hard to fix).
-- 
David Roundy
Dept. of Physics
Oregon State University