[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Round II -- new language, arch, furth, etc.

[John Meinel]

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I can't say I know everything about darcs, I've only read the manual as
part of deciding what SCM system to go with. Obviously I didn't decide
on darcs.

I believe it uses a similar feature to Arch, where every change has an
associated file. And your source is defined by what patches it contains.
So to a merge between locations, is (push/pull) a patch into your system.

I'm not sure what relationships you are talking about that it cannot
represent.

I do know that it has the idea of committing to the local tree before
you commit to some other repository. (Kind of like an automatically
getting a branched mirror) They state that every working copy is a "branch".

I'm not really sure how you say "what do I have that the master
repository doesn't", though I'm sure there is a way.

This is about the extent of my knowledge, so if you want more, you'll
probably need to read the darcs manual.

John
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Miles Bader wrote:

| John Meinel <address@hidden> writes:
|
|>"The primary simplifying notion of darcs is that every copy of your
|>source code is a full repository."
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| So darcs cannot represent relationships between different repositories?
|
| How does it handle synchronization between independent sites working on
| the same code base (or doesn't it)?
|
| -Miles
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