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

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Fri Jan 9 13:03:52 UTC 2009


> 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."

Pretentious blogger makes authoritative statements about things he hasn't
got the vaguest idea about.  News at eleven.

                                        Juliusz


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