On 2005-06-07, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As others have said, it's nice to have a clean history.  A dirty history is
> all right when it's just you working on the project, but "never mind"
> patches lead to conflicts with other developers.  I agree that if you fix a
> bug then realize the bugfix is wrong, probably you shouldn't amend-record
> that patch.  But if you add a new feature, but forget to darcs add the
> relevant file, it makes perfect sense to amend-record the patch.
>
> I think of darcs more as a means of communication than a means of storing
> history, and clean patches make it much easier to read and review changes.

On the other hand, as we've already established, all of this stuff
breaks if others are pulling your repo... so I don't think it actually
is friendlier to others.

Anyway, thanks to all for the insight.  I think I'll just continue not
using these commands :-)



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