[darcs-users] unique features + exponential time issue

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Pekka Pessi writes:
 > 2007/10/25, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
 > > And you should.
 > 
 > > I would never use a merge tool that didn't signal a conflict in this
 > > case (and I'm pretty sure Darcs will, btw).
 > 
 > Perhaps you should not use darcs.
 [...]
 > Thu Oct 25 03:45:32 EEST 2007  Pekka Pessi <first at last.fi>
 >   * a
 > Shall I pull this patch? (1/1)  [ynWvpxqadjk], or ? for help: y
 > 
 > Finished pulling and applying.

Yuck.  You're right, that sorta kills it for me---I'll stick to any
old SCM that interfaces with ediff.

But then why, pray tell, does Darcs insist on signaling conflicts for
ChangeLogs?