On 11/01/2011 23:11, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:
On 11/01/2011, at 22:20, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 11/01/11 21:57, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:
IMO, darcs-all works pretty well. I don't think I ever really had
problems with missing library patches.
I often see problems where someone has done 'darcs pull' rather than
'./darcs-all pull' and ended up with a weird compilation error as a result. If
we could eliminate this source of errors, it would be a major win.
A quick look at the docs seems to indicate that we'd need to do
git pull
git submodule update
which doesn't look like a win over darcs-all. Also, I completely fail to
understand what git submodule update does. It doesn't seem to pull all patches
from the master repo. The git submodule docs are even worse than the rest of
the git docs which is rather discouraging.
True, however the build system could automatically check whether you had
missed this step, because it could check the hashes.
This would be useful. Unfortunately, git's rewinding seems rather
crippled compared to darcs.
In what way?
Thomas says that it doesn't do automatic dependency tracking which looks like a
huge weakness to me. Personally, I haven't been able to successfully unpull
non-consecutive chunks of patches with git so far but I only tried 2 or 3 times
before giving up.
Right, not being able to automatically commute patches is a regression
compared to darcs. Git isn't universally "better" than darcs, which is
why we're having this discussion - the question is, do the advantages
outweigh the disadvantages. For example, you might well consider the
lack of a working annotate to be a "huge weakness" in darcs, and the
lack of good conflict handling is something that causes us real problems.
Cheers,
Simon
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