[darcs-users] darcs cannot apply some patch bundles

[Eric Kow]

On 4 Mar 2012, at 12:28, Ben Franksen wrote:
> As far as I am concerned, the 'darcs send computes minimal context' solution 
> would be perfect. But I have no idea how difficult that is (both for the 
> darcs developers and then for darcs). For a compromise, maybe some 
> approximation of 'minimal' would be good enough in practice.

Ah yes, I think I remember that one issue is that computing the minimal context is actually expensive.

I wonder what Darcs could compute that would a useful “smaller context”.  Maybe since Darcs already bases the bundle off the latest shared tag between sender and trunk (don't quote me on this, just a guess), it could just be minimal-assuming-that-latest-tag?

-- 
Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 203 bytes
Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
URL: <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/attachments/20120305/e33d5b53/attachment.asc>