[darcs-users] The minimal set of changes

[Xan]

> 
> I think this is an important topic though, particularly if/when darcs
> acquires more and more complicated patch types.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ganesh
> 

Can you describe what you mean here? Which "easy" patches has darcs got now?

On the other hand, I think we could treat patches as changes of *sets* of files. You can't know which file was the previous file (rename, cp, etc.). I think it could be interesting to focus on contents on the files rather than in the path names (using sha hashes for example). The change in path name could be a path too. I think git use it so. I don't say we have to copy that, but perhaps darcs could be more clever....

Thanks,