On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:21:41PM +0000, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I'm reading through the Tips & Tricks, and I found this one:
> 
> http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/HintsAndTips#head-7dee93a36c5c3c1acbc8cbefb2a1d30669b52bd1
> 
> <quote>
> When working on a project, even a one-person project, you should not 
> work in the repository itself, but in a copy thereof. This will allow 
[...]
> changes, I can just make a copy of the repository then. I can always 
> make a new branch and unrecord patches from one of them.
> 
> Am I missing something?

These are basically different usage patterns, and they are both
mentioned in the section you quote from, although one of them
is argued for more strongly (I think it's fine if you want to
rewrite the wiki page to be more clear on that part).  I have
always been branching a lot and don't "stay" in one working
branch, but I don't use tools like Emacs that usually are "set
up" in a directory and require work to switch.  The thing is
you can remove patches with darcs, unlike any other rcs I know
of, and making an extra branch is an easy way to avoid stupid
mistakes (like forgetting to make a branch before you unpull).


-- 
Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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