[darcs-users] 'move' order in darcs chan --xml -s

[Trent W. Buck]

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> writes:

> Let's say you create a repo: [...]
>
> (2) is about: rename A to B, remove B - so B was not in the repo and
>     after the patch A won't be either.
>
> (4) is about: remove B, rename A to B - so A and B were in the repo
>     and after the patch only B will be, with the contents of A.
>
> So you can see the order of remove and move matters a lot.

Assuming I've understood the implications correctly, I don't think this
is a bug.  However I don't think I *have* understood; I need a
blackboard to nut this one out.

> Now if you do a darcs changes --xml -s, then you *always* get the moves
> first, so you can't decide what situation are you in.
>
> Is this a feature? Or should I report it as a bug?

The output of changes here is arguably a bug, due to the case you
describe above.  By all means report it to the BTS -- even if consensus
is that it *isn't* a bug, it means we then have a record of the non-bug
and a flag of "WONTFIX" against it -- which will help future bug
reporters.