[darcs-users] Help understanding the push with conflicts message

Eric Kow kowey at darcs.net
Fri Apr 10 23:16:57 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 13:30:12 +0100, Ashley Moran wrote:
>> Perhaps one day somebody could work out a better way to make use of
>> this within the user interface

> An especially useful one for me would be if pushing to a repo failed  
> (which usually means I've deleted a local branch), darcs offered an  
> interactive choice of other targets.

Hmm, perhaps a concrete example might make this clearer.

You might find me saying "err, no, thanks" to a lot of UI proposals
floating on this list :-)  I don't mean to shoot them down or to
needlessly trot out the iron fist.  The game is balance what users might
find friendly in one particular local case with an overall global
problem of keeping things as tight and tidy as possible.  Just one tiny
pebble here and there added to the UI and the whole thing turns into a
sort of avalanche of UI "features".

That said, keep the proposals coming!  Sometimes a more general solution
that just hits the spot will emerge from the discussions.  I think the
nice thing about the darcs UI is that a lot of different operations
work the "same" way.  So the kind of proposals I (personally) tend to
like are those which have a sort of broad applicability to lots of
different commands/cases.  Anyway, we may make mistakes in what we deem
tight and tidy, but we certainly mean well!

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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