[darcs-users] Re: More thoughts on line endings, meta tags, patch types, etc

[Mark Stosberg]

On 2004-12-10, Michael Conrad <conradme at email.uc.edu> wrote:

>   darcs type [normal|binary|logiline] filename (s)...

Without endorsing the idea yet, I would prefer that the UI be:

darcs record --filetype= ...

'type' on it's own is not very descriptive, and  I'm not sure it merits
a top level command. 

> To read a patch with new types, you'd just have to get that lhs file and
> recompile.

 From a particular users perspective, this is a cool feature. Looking a
large set if users, this is essentially adding a way to easily create
incompatible repos. You would have projects advertising: "To download
this code, you need darcs with the X, Y and Z patch types installed".
That's my fear anyway. 

    Mark

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