[darcs-users] darcs patch: darcshoogle script and emacs integration example

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:40:13AM +0100, Eric Kow wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 17:11:11 -0700, Simon Michael wrote:
> > Ok I think I understand - you can't apply what I've been darcs-sending 
> > to unstable because darcs send includes more dependency (context) than 
> > usual (I wonder why that is).
> 
> Probably ease of implementation.   By default, darcs send does not
> bother to minimise the context of a patch beyond what is in the remote
> repository.  It could do more (indeed we have --context flag that lets
> you control just how much context you want within reason).  For example,
> we might commute the sent-patches down as far as possible in our own
> repository before doing the send.  It's not clear to me how that would
> perform in practice though.

Ease of implementation and efficiency.  And you really should be darcs
sending to the repository you want a patch bundle applied to,
otherwise there is no guarantee that it will be applyable.

David
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