Jamie:

Thank you very much for the explanation.

How did you learn this?

Could someone update the manual re: "darcs resolve" and include your
explanation?

Finally, could "darcs resolve" be renamed to "darcs mark-conflicts"?

Regards,

Zooko

> The behaviour is this:
> 
> When darcs applies a conflicting patch, the resulting state of
> /pristine/ ignores the conflict. The state of the working directory
> depends on some flags:
> 
> --mark-conflicts (which is I believe the default) causes darcs resolve
> to be called, and the conflicts are marked.
> 
> --allow-conflicts does not mark the conflicts and modifies working and
> pristine in the same way.
> 
> These's also --dont-allow-conflicts, which refuses to apply the
> patches.
> 
> Thus manually calling darcs resolve is useful in two situations:
> either the user selected --allow-conflicts, and now wants those
> conflicts marked, or the user has reverted the conflict markers and
> now wants them put back.
> 
> -- Jamie Webb
> 
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