On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:37:17PM +0200, Daniel Lutz wrote: > Hi, > > In the Darcs manual and in Darcs messages both the "large" changes > (which get a name while "darcs record") and the "small" contained > changes (e.g. hunk, binary, addfile) are called "patches". > Is there a commonly used term to differentiate the two? E.g. "change" > or "sub patch" or "patch atom" or "patch primitive"?
I (try to) use the term "primitive patch" to refer to a single indivisible patch. "Change" is meant to refer to a logical change (be it a primitive or composite change), so a patch is a representation of a change. As such, patch and change can often be used interchangeably, even though they don't mean precisely the same thing. Unfortunately, much of the manual (and many of darcs' prompts) were written before I made this distinction. Probably we should say "change" more often, and "patch" less often. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
