[darcs-users] Partial deprecated?
Juliusz Chroboczek
jch at pps.jussieu.fr
Thu Nov 12 08:06:14 UTC 2009
I've recently converted some of my repos to the darcs-2 format, only to
discover that --partial no longer works.
So how do we do overlays now?
An overlay, for those who don't know, is a repository that is not useful
by itself, but can be pushed to and pulled from assuming you already
have pulled the overlay's base from a different repository. So for
example if fancy-feature-overlay contains the patches needed for some
fancy feature, then
$ darcs get --tag fancy-feature-base http://.../silly-project
$ cd silly-project
$ darcs pull http://.../fancy-feature-overlay
and I have silly-project with the fancy feature included.
Note that this is better than publishing a patch bundle, since you
cannot push to a patch bundle.
Any help with recovering overlay functionality would be appreciated.
Juliusz
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