[darcs-users] can we remove --no-pristine-tree?

Kari Hoijarvi hoijarvi at seas.wustl.edu
Thu Jan 8 14:50:41 UTC 2009


>> - on the other hand, for hashed repositories --no-working-directory
>>   would be less transparent than a hypothetical --no-pristine-tree,
>>   because of our internal gobbledegooky filenames... we would have
>>   to do something like darcs show contents and darcs show files to
>>   retrieve files, yuck :-(
>>     
>
> This isn't an issue specific to working-treeless repos.  Any tool that
> wants to know what *Darcs* thinks is in the repo should be using the
> show commands, not just catting whatever happens to be in the working
> directory.  Cf. the arguments for/against the --hashed format.
>   

This is what my upgrade to TortoiseDarcs 2 does. The current 
functionality of "show files" and "whatsnew -s --look-for-adds" is 
sufficient, but in the release I'll write down my wish list.

Kari


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