[darcs-users] Fwd: Darcs Problems

Ganesh Sittampalam ganesh at earth.li
Wed Feb 27 06:47:15 UTC 2013


Hi John,

On 25/02/2013 00:50, John Lato wrote:

> Also, I'd like to mention that the presence of in-repo branching has
> more than just technical benefits.  I've had developers tell me they
> think darcs is unusable for any project developed by more than 1 person,
> because without explicit branches there's no way to coordinate work.
>  Obviously there's evidence to the contrary, but having support for
> named branches is a powerful organizational tool.  Any DVCS that doesn't
> have them is at a distinct disadvantage to git because that management
> overhead is now off-loaded to the developer.

How do explicit branches help with coordinating work? Is it about
addressing, i.e. people know that the repository is at location X and
they just need to find out what branches are inside it?

Cheers,

Ganesh



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