[darcs-users] Identical patches and dependencies

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Wed Aug 13 20:48:46 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:51:03AM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
>> This is a known bug that has been announced in most of the darcs-2
>> release announcements.
>
> Ah, I see this is talked about on http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/DarcsTwo
>
> I must have read it some time ago and forgotten about it.
>
> Anyway, from where I'm sitting, this just shows that primitive patches
> must be named, which is good news IMO, as I think it'll simplify the
> theory. We will now really have sets rather than bags, and I don't
> remember off-hand exactly what your arguments for using catches in
> contexts were, but I think that this means that we can just use patches
> rather than catches, as we don't need to worry about telling the
> contexted patches apart.

No, it doesn't show any of that.  It just shows that we need to fix
darcs, because it's buggy.

David


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