On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 21:30:55 -0400, Max Battcher wrote:
> Eric, with lazy repos and the new _darcs/prefs/sources file its likely 
> that just about every command might hit a potential ssh connection to a 
> remote repo.

Good point, so not such a drawback.

> Which leads me to my next question: Could this be 
> implemented just by checking the caches in sources for a copy?  This 
> would be:

Interesting.  I forget what the situation is with the cleaning of the
cache, but we could need to have a cache which is immune to implicit
cleaning.  Such a feature could be very easily added to darcs.

> "stash" command, using the global cache as a meta-repository for stashed 
> patches.  Thus one obvious name for a "pull a patch from the cache" 
> might be "unstash".  (Depending on the way this "unstash from the cache" 
> tool detects suitable patches it might make for an interesting tool in 
> the weird case that "I want to pull a patch into this repository, but I 
> forget which local repository I made it in, so let's just try unstash 
> real quick because it should be cached by now...")

I do sometimes darcs send -O patches and unpull them.  Hmm...
 
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