On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:35:36AM +0100, Thomas Schilling wrote: > 2008/10/4 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > all people who use the ghc-6.10 branch darcs > > repos deleting their libraries/bytestring repo and getting the new one. > > How is that different from having to call ./darcs-all get? it's just > a 'rm -r' more. I guess the problem would be a confusing error > message? In that case, update darcs-all first to give an error if the > wrong repo is present. This way the usual darcs pull -a; darcs-all > pull -a would not give confusing error messages.
The main difference is that if you forget to update a repo then rather than a fairly obvious "no such directory $repo" when you try to build, you'll either get conflicts or, I suspect more likely, a darcs exponential merge when pulling. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
