[darcs-users] Re: How to see who pushed a patch

[Mark Stosberg]

On 2005-06-08, Erik Schnetter <schnetter at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 08 June 2005 18:39, Remko Troncon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have a small problem with the use of Darcs for our project. We
>> have a central repository, to which only the developers can push.  We
>> also have quite some contributors, who send patches to the developers
>> for committing to the main branch. Our problem is that we not only
>> want to know who created the patch, but that we also want to track
>> who pushed the patch to the branch. A developer committing it should
>> have to change the patch to reflect who committed it (or who wrote
>> the patch), but this would mean that the patch authors would get
>> conflicts when pulling from the main branch again.
>>
>> The only solution we seem to find is to use the unix filesystem
>> ownership of patches to see who committed the patch.
>>
>> Does anyone have any other solutions for this ?
>
> You can use email (darcs send) instead of darcs push to apply the=20
> patches to the central repository.  That makes it easy to invoke a=20
> wrapper who keeps a log of who sent the email.

Our you could just write a wrapper around darcs push, which did logging
before after the push.

Either way, you have remember to use a different command instead of
just 'darcs push'

    Mark