Re: [darcs-users] Upcoming 2.8

2012-02-25 Thread Archi
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:23:40 -0700, Michael Hendricks mich...@ndrix.org wrote: I suspect that 2.8 will not contain rebase. The associated issue hasn't been updated in almost 2 years: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue938 The package darcs-beta on Hackage doesn't seem to have rebase functionality

Re: [darcs-users] Upcoming 2.8

2012-02-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Archi writes: What scenario were you wanting rebase for that patch commutation does not solve? There are specific corner cases, but I don't see how corner cases make for a good marketing feature. Rebase is mostly about presentation, rather than solving problems. Also, in some cases

Re: [darcs-users] Upcoming 2.8

2012-02-25 Thread Archi
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:21:00 -0700, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Archi writes: What scenario were you wanting rebase for that patch commutation does not solve? There are specific corner cases, but I don't see how corner cases make for a good marketing feature. Rebase is

Re: [darcs-users] Upcoming 2.8

2012-02-25 Thread Ganesh Sittampalam
On 24/02/2012 20:01, Ben Franksen wrote: Michael Hendricks wrote: I suspect that 2.8 will not contain rebase. The associated issue hasn't been updated in almost 2 years: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue938 The package darcs-beta on Hackage doesn't seem to have rebase functionality and I see no

Re: [darcs-users] Upcoming 2.8

2012-02-25 Thread Ben Franksen
Archi wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:21:00 -0700, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Archi writes: What scenario were you wanting rebase for that patch commutation does not solve? There are specific corner cases, but I don't see how cornercases make for a good marketing

Re: [darcs-users] Upcoming 2.8

2012-02-25 Thread Michael Hendricks
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Archi writes:   What scenario were you wanting rebase for that patch commutation does not   solve?  There are specific corner cases, but I don't see how corner cases   make for a good marketing feature. Rebase is