[darcs-users] darcs patch: Refactor Darcs homepage. (and one more).

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at theingots.org
Sun Apr 12 14:56:28 UTC 2009


Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> That's simply not true in more generality than "in the case I just
> invented for the purpose of proving this point", though.  In some
> similar cases a happy merger is just what you want.

Yes, but my point was that the VCS doesn't know. That said, if it is 
true that...

> The verdict of
> the users was overwhelmingly in favor of happy-go-lucky merging of
> identical changes.

Then all I can say is ... :-(


> There is a way out of this problem.  And that's to focus on how Darcs
> makes sane programming easier by checking what can be checked and
> doing what can be done in typical cases, rather than focusing on a
> spurious notion of correctness in edge cases.

I was hoping that we would some example to justify the claim that the 
theory of patches is somehow better than 3-way merge.

Daniel.


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