On Apr 22, 2008, at 09:20, Jason Dagit wrote: > I've never looked at vc-darcs, but how does it handle the case of > selectively recording a hunk? I believe to satisfy the needs of the > original poster, hunk selection at record time via a gui would be > necessary. > > One approach would be to use the current interactive interface of > darcs. I think this is inherently hard to do. Maybe I'm just bad > at it, but I've always found programmatically working with an > interactive interface is hard. Sometimes you mistakenly block > waiting to hear from the other process and vice versa. This leads > to a flaky UI and none of us want that. I find that error handling > and reporting is usually harder when using the subprocess technique. >
I've done this. While it is a bit painful to code, the good news is that it is possible. Generally I agree with your comments... Every time I see patches related to making darcs more grammatically correct, I wonder if it will break a string I have to match on. Regards, Ben Coburn _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
