Hi Eric thanks for explaining and adding the FAQ entry.
Eric Kow wrote: > 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. Yes, thanks you. > See also http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2150 for a placeholder ticket about > improving this. As far as I am concerned, the 'darcs send computes minimal context' solution would be perfect. But I have no idea how difficult that is (both for the darcs developers and then for darcs). For a compromise, maybe some approximation of 'minimal' would be good enough in practice. Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
