[darcs-users] making add/remove file commute with content change

[Ketil Malde]

Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> writes:

> *darcs should allow to record changes to the content of a file that has been
> removed (or wasn't even added in the first place)*
  [...]
> What do you think?

I'm no darcs expert, so perhaps that is why I am confused.

What would it mean to pull a change to a file that doesn't exist?
What does my repo look like afterwards?  If I then pull a patch that
creates the file, what will change?

Don't know if this is related, but I think it was once proposed that
new files would be created ..uh..somewhere else, with a unique name,
and 'darcs mv'ed into place.  This would let you have different files
with the same name at different times.

-k
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