On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > > So for the record, why is it that you won't make darcs maintain a > darcs-1-format > repository internally? Because it would complicate the darcs source? In this > ticket kowey asked Jason for his opinion on that, but Jason didn't reply.
Indeed. Sorry about not replying. My opinion: Because darcs-1 and darcs-2 repositories vary mostly by semantics and only slightly by file format, I guess I don't really know how to make darcs-2 semantics map into darcs-1 semantics without all the familiar problems of darcs-1 repositories. I'm concerned that the darcs-1 pristine would diverge from the darcs-2 pristine. Then what would be the meaning of a given set of patches in a particular branch? It sounds like a nice usability feature, but I can't really see how to make it feasible in practice. I hope that helps, Jason _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
