[darcs-users] 'Darcs' Theory of Patches Isn't Useful'

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 02:01:43 UTC 2009


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http://jfm3-repl.blogspot.com/2009/01/darcs-theory-of-patches-isnt-useful.html

"The "theory of patches" proposed in the Darcs documentation is a nice
slick theory, but not particularly useful to programmers. It is
generally impossible to programmaticly determine whether one patch
must precede another in the revision tree of source code for any
reasonably complex program. As Tom Moertel describes, it's
equivalently useful (if not more so) to rebase your code against a
known good order of patches, rather than to attempt relatively tricky
merges over the partial order of patches."

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gwern
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