OK folks, making patch-tag darcs send friendly is done. http://blog.patch-tag.com/2009/10/14/patch-tag-is-now-darcs-send-friendly/
Let me know if you have any idea for additional improvements. :) thomas. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Eric Kow <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 04:54:38 -0400, Max Battcher wrote: >> On 10/11/2009 4:02, Eric Kow wrote: >> >Also, I should correct one of the errors in my earlier message: >> >_darcs/prefs/sources should be treated as internal Darcs metadata, >> >not a local pref >> >> I would say that's a fine line distinction right there-- I've had to >> edit _darcs/prefs/sources for various reasons and I could see >> someone manually pruning it as appropriate... > > I we need to think a bit more carefully about this, especially why we > make these distinctions. I seem to be confusing myself at least! > > The reason why I first said it was local information was because as you > said above, you sometimes edit it as appropriate. > > The reason I later backtracked and said it was internal metadata was > because Darcs manipulates it and consults it from remote repos. > Notably, darcs copies the _darcs/prefs/sources from the remote repo and > augments it with local information. Editing _darcs/prefs/prefs should > be probably discouraged; editing the _darcs/prefs/sources on the other > hand... is maybe kosher. Confusing the issue is the fact that Darcs > does not currently handle the _darcs/prefs/sources very intelligently. > > See > - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1599 (authomatically expire unused caches) > - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1159 (unionCache does not adjust cache > paths wrt remote repository location) > > Perhaps if Darcs were smarter about caches, users wouldn't need to > intervene manually and we really can treat it as purely internal > data. > > -- > Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> > PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 > > _______________________________________________ > darcs-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users > > -- Need somewhere to put your code? http://patch-tag.com Want to build a webapp? http://happstack.com _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
