Hi again, On 3 Mar 2012, at 07:08, Eric Kow wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2012, at 02:30, Ben Franksen wrote: >> I recently had a situation where I could not apply a patch bundle created >> using darcs send because darcs apply complained about a missing patch in the >> repo. So I pulled the missing patch, could apply the bundle, and then >> obliterated the patch I just pulled. So, obviously the bundle did not depend >> on teh missing patch, so why did darcs not allow me to apply it? > > This question would make a nice FAQ. I couldn't find any written-up > discussions specifically on it (ideally, on http://wiki.darcs.net/FAQ), but I > did manage to dig up this old discussion on IRC:
OK, I wrote this up in http://wiki.darcs.net/FAQ#why-does-darcs-apply-force-me-to-get-unrelated-dependencies Hope it helps. See also http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2150 for a placeholder ticket about improving this. Thanks and sorry, Eric PS: any corrections, darcs devs? -- Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>
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