[darcs-users] Upcoming 2.8

Archi archisquid at gmail.com
Sat Feb 25 15:09:56 UTC 2012


On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:21:00 -0700, Stephen J. Turnbull  
<stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

> Archi writes:
>
> > What scenario were you wanting rebase for that patch commutation does 
> not
> > solve? There are specific corner cases, but I don't see how cornercases
> > make for a good marketing feature.
>
> Rebase is mostly about presentation, rather than solving problems.
>
> Also, in some cases you want to "force commute" across a dependency
> (again usually for presentation purposes, but sometimes to make a
> branch work better).

The new hunk splitting allows those commutes.

What do you mean by presentation? darcs changes? For that you can just  
create a new working dir and pull in the order you want. Some external  
graphing tool?  Hmmm... same solution I think.


-- 
Archi
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