On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:04:21PM +0100, Daniel Bünzli wrote: > The wiki tells me [1] that one should not synchronize '_darcs' > directories with unison. I don't see why this is a problem and I > would really like to do that (to know why see long version below). > Can anybody explain me what the problem is ? After all, what is under > '_darcs' is just a bunch of files.
One way to explain it is that the relevant bits under _darcs *change* in a very complicated way whenever you do something to the repo. The only safe way to merge something from one repo to another, is with darcs or some tool that understands this complicated patch algebra. Other tools can't merge/sync darcs repos, they only can do a complete replace (as Jamie already explained). So you should in practise move your repo around by copying it (in full), and a properly used syncing tool can do it more efficiently by only transferring the differing parts. -- Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
