On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:04:05PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, den 26.10.2012, 23:23 +0000 schrieb [email protected]: > > Fri Oct 26 23:05:10 UTC 2012 [email protected] > > * redo experimental changes again > > Ignore-this: 9118d8baaf94bc453494b6479901fed2 > > > > I think this is why people use branches.. > > > > M ./changelog +6 > > M ./control -1 +1 > > you don’t need to undo the changes and redo them later. What I do in > this case is: > > * darcs pull > * darcs obliterate > # select the experimental changes and remove them from my repo > # do whatever I want to do with unstable > * darcs record > * darcs tag > # Now we have a separate, anonymous, local branch > * darcs pull > # This will introduce conflicts in changelog, which we resolve in > whatever way makes most sense to us > * darcs record -m "Merge unstable and experimental branch" > > So there are branches. The next person who wants to work from the > unstable status can then obliterate everything up to the last unstable > patch to get that state again.
Asking as I still struggle with darcs concepts: Does this mean we actually have two branches in the same repository, like git does? And does it follow, if true, that we can get rid of extra repositories for e.g. backports or experimental? thanks, iustin
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