[darcs-users] darcs transplant [was: darcs weekly news #28]

[Jason Dagit]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> On May 14, 2009, at 17:09 PM, Jason Dagit wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Nit pick: shouldn't this just be called darcs rebase ?
>
> ...
>>
>> http://bugs.darcs.net/msg5565
>>
>> With the particular quote: "I would not call anything in darcs rebase."
>
> I read that message, but I don't get it.  How is the "transplant" that Simon
> Michael wants different than git rebase?

I know very little about git.  I wouldn't know if darcs transplant is
close enough to pass for rebase or not.

>  Or, put another way, isn't Simon
> Michael asking for a command like "git rebase" to be added to darcs?

That is my understanding.  Which is why I pointed out why we're not
planning to call it rebase, even if the functionality is the same.

I hope that clarifies,
Jason