[darcs-users] reviewing and testing pulls

[Tanksley, William D. Jr.]

From: Kevin Smith
>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.

I was going to argue against this on the basis that there's supposed to be a
1-1 relationship between workspaces and repositories, and if you want to
build and test something, you really should pull it into a temporary
repository.

But then I remembered darcs' test script. Why shouldn't that be able to do
what you want? Shouldn't that be able to stop a pulled patch from being
recorded, just as it can stop a pending patch from being recorded?

If it can't do that now, perhaps we should make it so.

>Kevin

-Billy