[darcs-users] darcs convert between with multiple branches

[Reinier Lamers]

Hi Lev,

On Saturday 22 August 2009 02:56:57 Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> Is it correct to assume that were I to convert the same repository
> with their destinations being 'repo1' and 'repo2', that they would not
> be interoperable as two darcs branches off of the same repository?

That is correct.

> If
> this is in fact the case, the only way that one could convert a darcs
> repository which had spawned many branches (which were up to that
> point compatible with one another), would be to merge all of the
> branches to one main repository and subsequently convert?  This
> process basically forces merging of branches before conversion.

That, too, is correct.

Note that you get some of the benefits of darcs 2 without going through this 
process if you make sure that all your branches are "hashed". You create a 
hashed repository by passing the "--hashed" flag to get or init.

Regards,
Reinier
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