[darcs-users] rebase feedback and amend-record flexibility

Michael Hendricks michael at ndrix.org
Wed Apr 11 22:11:45 UTC 2012


On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> wrote:
>
> At the moment the only consequences of violating that advice are that
> you end up with conflicting patches that are quite similar and in
> practice you need to figure out which one to keep and which one to
> eradicate.
>
> If we allowed editing of A without changing the identity of B which
> implicitly depends on A, then you would get the much more nasty effects
> described in this thread.
>

Because of the restricted edits that squash allows, I'm not entirely
convinced the effects are worse than what we have now.  I won't belabor the
details.  Obviously, if I still think it's possible, I should code it up
and send patches.  Patches speak louder than words :-)

Thanks Ganesh, Florent and others for taking time to answer my questions.

-- 
Michael
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