On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:40:13AM +0100, Eric Kow wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 17:11:11 -0700, Simon Michael wrote: > > Ok I think I understand - you can't apply what I've been darcs-sending > > to unstable because darcs send includes more dependency (context) than > > usual (I wonder why that is). > > Probably ease of implementation. By default, darcs send does not > bother to minimise the context of a patch beyond what is in the remote > repository. It could do more (indeed we have --context flag that lets > you control just how much context you want within reason). For example, > we might commute the sent-patches down as far as possible in our own > repository before doing the send. It's not clear to me how that would > perform in practice though.
Ease of implementation and efficiency. And you really should be darcs sending to the repository you want a patch bundle applied to, otherwise there is no guarantee that it will be applyable. David
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