[darcs-users] darcs patch: add "parallel pairs" (and 6 more)

[Nicolas Pouillard]

Excerpts from Kamil Dworakowski's message of Sat Sep 19 11:23:30 +0200 2009:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nicolas Pouillard
> <nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Ganesh Sittampalam's message of Sat Sep 19 01:18:00 +0200 2009:
> >> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have a question about the hunk editing feature.
> >> > Does it leave the pristine tree as is (like git), or not?
> >>
> >> Once you've edited a hunk, you can choose whether or not to record the
> >> resulting fragments. If you don't record any of them then you'll be back
> >> where you started - the edited hunk won't be offered next time. So for the
> >> feature to be any use you'd have to record something and thus change
> >> pristine.
> >
> > I think, I wasn't clear enough: the git edit-hunk feature enables you commit
> > an edited hunk without changing the pristine directory accordingly. That is
> > you end up with an unrecorded change.
> >
> > I don't know what semantics is the most useful, maybe both are useful. In fact
> > I was expecting the pristine to be updated the first time I used the git
> > feature.
> 
> I know this feature in git. I think you mean "working dir" not the
> pristine. The pristine are the files created by the sum of patches you
> have, in other words this is the recorded state of the repository.
> Editing a hunk in git does not change the working dir.

Oh yes my bad, I completely meant "working dir" instead of pristine.

> 
> Cheers,
> Kamil

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