[darcs-users] Open Source Hebrew Roots Bible; darcs the right software to use?

[Max Battcher]

Your best bet is probably using a modified WikiEngine.

On 4/3/06, Ted Walther <krooger at debian.org> wrote:
> So I can hack it up?  I'll need a listing of all changesets that touch a
> particular line.  And if I add lines, will that be tracked.  Let's say I
> want to view changes to Lk13:2, but I've added a couple verses to Jb42;
> will annotate follow that change backward?

It would be much easier in darcs if you kept each verse in its own
seperate file, as darcs' change management tools of this form (darcs
changes, darcs mv) are really at the file/directory level.  This would
be a bit unusual perhaps, but you could create a very simple script to
"cat" the entire work into that one monolithic file you are seeking,
which becomes akin to the "compilation" stage of a program, and that
you could even use ``darcs dist`` to run.  You could even add the
verse notations in that script and avoid having it stored redundantly
in the "source" files.

I'm not sure how happy you would be to work with such a structure like
Luke\13\2.txt and Job\4\2.txt, though.

> Also, because I want to run GNU wdiff, how do I do that?  Maybe I'll
> have to write my own thing simple software for this simple project.

Right now darcs definitely does not support arbitrary diff-based
patches (ie, patches for now will always be line-based).

``darcs diff``, for examing changes after the fact, could use
alternate diff tools, but currently is hardwired to call ``diff``. 
You could override your path before calling darcs and and use a
symlink diff -> wdiff.

--
--Max Battcher--
http://www.worldmaker.net/
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of
every organism to live beyond its income. --Samuel Butler