On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:42:21PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > >> The golden rule is to always sync the entire _darcs directory in > >> one direction. If you've pulled different patches into the two > >> copies of the repo and then try to merge them, you'll probably end > >> up with corruption. Apart from that, it should be fine. > > > This makes sense, thanks for your answer. I will update the wiki > > along these lines. > > Please don't. (I'm the author of the current wording.)
But Unison is basically unusable unless you sync the _darcs directory. You end up with two possibilities: a) you darcs pull first, but now Unison sees modifications in both repos, so it'll be painful to merge unrecorded changes; or b) you use Unison first, and now Darcs will see huge conflicts with changes that appear recorded in one repo but not the other. It's fair enough to put a warning in about Unison, because it certainly can screw things up (but not too easily, because if both repos have been modifed, Unison will likely give you a hint by prompting you to merge inventory or pending), however suggesting skipping the _darcs directory doesn't seem right. And why on earth would you need to skip _darcs when using rsync or cp? -- Jamie Webb _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
