[darcs-users] reviewing and testing pulls

[David Roundy]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 06:05:36AM -0400, zooko at zooko.com wrote:
> 
> > It seems like it would be quite possible to write a tool that would 
> > compare your recorded repo against (the working directory + a patch 
> > set). But what I really want is the ability to use any existing tool to 
> > do that comparison.
> 
> > Also, I want to build and test a "candidate" that includes an external 
> > patch, prior to committing to including that patch in my repo. It seems 
> > like a broken process if I have to put it in my repo first, and then 
> > unpull or unrecord or rollback if I don't like it.
> 
> How's this?  (Proof of concept.)
> 
> cd .. && cp -rf myrepo tmprepo && cd tmprepo && darcs pull patchsrcrepo && 
> cd .. && diff -u -r --exclude=_darcs myrepo tmprepo

probably better to use

cd .. && darcs get --repo-name tmprepo myrepo && cd tmprepo && \
   darcs pull patchsrcrepo && cd .. && \
   diff -u -r --exclude=_darcs myrepo tmprepo

since this won't copy the patch files (it'll create hard links).
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org