[darcs-users] some special amend-records

[Miles Gould]

On 05/04/13 22:12, Sebastian Fischer wrote:
> As alternative solution "patch groups" were proposed as a means to
> bundle certain patches under a user provided name. Like with branches in
> Git, it should be possible to add and remove patches from a patch group
> and users who have pulled a patch group should be able to follow such
> changes.
>
> My impression is that the whole repository can be viewed as a patch
> group that contains everything, so patch groups might be a
> generalization of repositories. Adding and removing patch groups from a
> working directory looks like switching branches in the same directory
> but more flexible. (My impression is that patch groups can be combined
> more flexibly than branches.)

Patch groups certainly seem like a natural solution to the problem I 
describe here: http://pozorvlak.dreamwidth.org/174393.html - in which I 
have a number of fairly orthogonal changes made to a codebase and want 
every combination of those changes.

Miles