Excerpts from Eric Kow's message of Wed Sep 30 22:14:11 +0200 2009: > Did you mean to send this just to me? or also to darcs-users?
No, it was not intended. I've bounced both mails to darcs-users. > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 16:18:53 +0200, Nicolas Pouillard wrote: > > > But won't this cause pain and suffering for Darcs users that create > > > mv patches and then depend on them? > > > > Right, but you have the choice of what is SVN repo for. You can for > > instance, > > migrate slowly from SVN to darcs, and at some point no longer push to the > > SVN. > > So part of the goal for me is to reduce the cost of trying Darcs out. > Having to convert your repo is cost, so if we support SVN somehow we > kill that cost. But another form of cost is having to worry that Darcs > will let you do things that you can't later push back to the SVN repo > (because you're still not yet committed to Darcs; you're just dipping > your toes). So that's my goal. 100% compatibility, zero psychological > cost. Just try it! Darcs as a better SVN client. See what I mean? So I will be in favor of, a warning, or a confirmation by the user. And maybe not based on a change of the repo format, but more a "do this repo has an SVN repo in its _darcs/prefs/repos list". -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
