On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 13:10:06 -0400, David Roundy wrote: >> What I don't know (and maybe it's hidden somewhere in those emails >> that I only skimmed) is what problem there is. Why is it considered >> important for users to be able to write "Ignore-this: foobar" in their >> patches and have darcs display this to people who pull from them? > > I think it's just Zooko trying to be on the safe side. He thinks it's > conceivable that users would actually put Ignore-this: into their patch > logs for daily use (I think it's a stretch, but who knows). > > The second thing he is trying to do is to make us more future-proof by > suggesting a way to do things so that we can add more metadata in the > future without confusing darcs 2.1.0
I don't see that we've yet added any metadata, and don't see any reason to do so. I think this is a red herring, and we should wait until there's a feature that would benefit from this. Or at least we should ask whether there is some sort of hypothetical feature that it would benefit. In the absence of any of those, I'd say we've got what we want. As far as the concern about users putting Ignore-this: into their patch information, I don't see it as a compelling reason to add complexity to the code, especially since I consider hidden comments to be a very reasonable feature to add to darcs. David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
