On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:18:37PM +0200, Remko Troncon wrote:
> > Not very helpful to you right now I know, but I think the correct
> > solution would be the 'patch subsumption' wishlist item that keeps
> > popping up.
> 
> That sounds good indeed ! Any idea whatsoever when we may expect this
> feature ?

It depends on when someone volunteers to work on this.  It's mostly a user
interface issue.  We've already got patch dependencies, which are
fundamentally similar.  In fact, we could define dependencies to be
identical to "patch subsumption", at which point we'd just want possibly a
nicer way to specify dependencies, the ability to create a patch with
dependencies but no changes (this may already be done...), and the ability
to hide patches that are explicitely depended upon by other patches (with
of course, the corresponding ability to show such patches).

And of course, documentation indicating how to use this.  And we'd need to
allow you to explicitely depend on patches that are implicitely depended on
by other patches that you depend on.  This is a bit more of a pain, but
could be done at a later time.

Unfortunately, this is a rather large project for a new darcs contributor.
On the other hand, it is also made up of small changes, so it might be
reasonable to someone with haskell knowledge but not darcs-coding
experience to tackle.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net

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