On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:22:37PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 13 October 2005 14:18, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Obviously with darcs, one wants to have shared history as much as
> > possible, but if I tailor the two separate branches, there will be no
> > shared history (to darcs) at all, right?
> 
> That would be unfortunate.  I wonder if it can be done, though: if you
> can create a darcs repository representing the CVS repo at the branch
> point, by unpulling all the relevant patches, then get tailor to pull
> over everything on the branch, you'd have a proper branch repository.
> Probably the difficult bit is creating the branch-point repo.

Another difficulty (show-stopper?) is the following:
If on the (long-lived) branch you periodically sync from HEAD, these
changes, when converted by tailor) are not equivalent to the respective
changes on HEAD.
That's at least how I understand it; be sure to correct me if I'm wrong.


Regards,
 Thomas
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