[darcs-users] darcs patch: Add Repository.checkPristineAgainstSlurpy. (and 14 more)

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:48:40PM +0200, me at mornfall.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry about unwieldly big bundle, the last 4 patches are the interesting part:
> the rest got pulled in by dependencies...
> 
> Now, since I'm already running around Cache, HashedIO and friends with a broom,
> I have removed most of the [DarcsFlag] instances in there, with the finding
> that the only thing that's actually used down the stack is "NoCompress". I have
> converted these to use a dedicated type. Hopefully, that's a step in right
> direction... (At very least, it documents what is needed where.)
> 
> I would generally like to push [DarcsFlag] use as high in the stack as
> reasonably possible, hopefully all the way to the UI layer. The core has no
> business dealing with that kind of wholesale information. (If noone minds, I'd
> go on with stripping [DarcsFlag] from smart_diff, as that looks like a good
> target to me -- a purely intuitive selection, though...)

Applied.  Thanks!  (And I'd want to do a behavior change in
smart_diff, so if you can wait on that until we've had time to talk,
that would be great.)

David