On 18-Jun-07, at 2:59 PM, Josef Svenningsson wrote:
That's true. I was thinking instead of the effort required by me to
distribute my patches. Instead of just pushing patches to the repo
whenever I like, I would have to use darcs send to create a patche,
darcs apply to apply the patch to the repo, and then (if that works)
I would have to make the patch available for download. It is that
kind of work that I want to avoid. Further, doing it that way, I
could not use darcs optimize to "bunch" patches together.
I'm not quite sure I follow. Why would you want to do 'darcs apply'
and to what repo? Is it just for safety measure, to make sure that the
patch bundle is OK?
Yes, sorry, that is what I was thinking.
Apart from that, yes there is a little bit of work involved for you as
a maintainer. You have to do 'darcs send' and make the resulting patch
bundle available for download. But if you write a little script it
should only be a single command. That seems feasible to me. In
particular it is the same amount of work as doing a 'darcs push' to a
public repo, which is, as I understand it, the method you first
contemplated.
You make a good point. Thanks for your help, Josef!
It's true that you wouldn't be able to bunch the patches together into
a single patch with this method. But the only method I know which
accomplishes this is to create a partial repo and that would mean that
any user would have to download the whole code base, not just your
changes. That seems contrary to the goals you mentioned earlier. So
while I agree with you that it would be nice to bunch patches together
I don't know of any way to do it.
Does anyone know if it is possible to make a partial repo such that
the repo does not allow non-local users to download patches which
create the parts of the repo which were there before the --checkpoint?
Can --no-pristine-tree be used to help with this somehow?
--
Robin Bate Boerop
http://www.shorestreet.com
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