[darcs-users] darcs patch: issue1373 rollback rollback and fixes

[Trent W. Buck]

Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se> writes:

> I don't know when I get time to hack on darcs next, but I can
> supply a patch with "half" ;-) the job -- a one-liner that adds
> unescaping of \_.

I'm against further kludges to darcs replace.  I'd like to deprecate it
and design something more robust and elegant to replace it.  Presumably
this would happen in Darcs 3.

> Allowing whitespace in the tokens themselves can not be done in
> any tricky way, I think. The problem is that any tricky escape
> sequence we could add risk being already present in some old
> replace patch that doesn't expect to be unescaped. The lucky
> thing with the token-chars is that they DO expect to be
> unescaped.

A "clean break" would also not need to be backwards-compatible :-)