Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>   % FIXME: If --no-pristine-tree is used, and then someone changes the
>   % working tree, will "darcs whatsnew" break, or just be very slow?
>From a quick test, it seems to stay working, albeit probably quite slowly (not
so slowly with just 40 patches in the repo, though).

>   % FIXME: I also expected --no-pristine-tree to break --lazy,
>   % since --lazy works by copying the pristine tree.  When I
>   % tested --no-pristine-tree with a darcs-2 repo, I found that it
>   % copied the pristine tree!  Does this mean that --no-pristine-tree is
>   % only for deprecated darcs-1 formats (hashed and
>   % old-fashioned-inventory)?
I can confirm that --no-pristine-tree is ignored for hashed repos. Whether
that's intentional or a bug, I can't tell. I'd consider it a documentation bug
at least (or commandline parsing, if you will, I'd expect darcs to at least
issue a warning that it is ignoring the flag).

Yours,
   Petr.

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