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 _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
