On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 03:50:45PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:03:52 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > OK, here's a specific example. I have a repo for the dotfiles in $HOME, > > for which the "active development" copy lives on my laptop. My laptop > > does not run sshd, so I can push from it and pull to it, but not push to > > it nor pull from it. > > Thanks! > > > Also, because I am resolving the conflicts in a temp dir on my laptop > > instead of in situ, it is harder to perform testing and easier to > > introduce bugs. For example, the host fs has bash 3.0 instead of bash > > 3.2, so several times I have broken my login scripts with bash 3.2isms. > > Is there a particular reason why it makes more sense to create a > temporary directory on the laptop, rather than to just pull to the > active development directory?
Because the active directory is what actually gets loaded on the laptop. So if I pull in office-specific patches that e.g. make $http_proxy correct for office machines, they will break things on the laptop. > Anyway there seems to be a consensus that implementing the flags > is OK for those who "know better". It makes me nervous, but I won't > fight it... Well, no one is asking for it to be made the default behaviour. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
