On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Max Battcher wrote:
To my knowledge its certainly possible for darcs to end up commuting a new patch nearly anywhere in the repository's patch order, even on just a pull/apply.
I believe that pull/apply are always append-only. Indeed, off the top of my head, only optimize --reorder, obliterate, unrecord and amend-record can do anything other than appending, and they just delete from somewhere in the middle.
Usually its quite unlikely, but theoretically it is still possible for the merger of long divergent branches to result in unusual repository orders that don't necessarily reflect the history of either branch very well (other than obvious dependencies, of course)...
Certainly that's true if you if you pull into a fresh repo in random order, but if you always pull from one to another then the order of patches in the target will persist.
Even if Trac+Darcs revision numbers don't contort alongside patch order, its still possible for the ``darcs show contents --match "hash patch-hash"`` to produce subtly different results after only a pull/apply due to commutation.
I don't think this statement is true, given the above. Ganesh _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
