Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > I've recently converted some of my repos to the darcs-2 format, only to > discover that --partial no longer works. > > So how do we do overlays now? > > An overlay, for those who don't know, is a repository that is not useful > by itself, but can be pushed to and pulled from assuming you already > have pulled the overlay's base from a different repository. So for > example if fancy-feature-overlay contains the patches needed for some > fancy feature, then > > $ darcs get --tag fancy-feature-base http://.../silly-project > $ cd silly-project > $ darcs pull http://.../fancy-feature-overlay > > and I have silly-project with the fancy feature included. > > Note that this is better than publishing a patch bundle, since you > cannot push to a patch bundle. > > Any help with recovering overlay functionality would be appreciated.
Doesn't a lazy repo on the "server" side do what you want? Still, the error messages if you try to pull from it without getting the base first might not be specific enough (but maybe that was already the case with --partial). Florent _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
