[darcs-users] "Rebasing" a repository?

[Robin Green]

If there are two darcs repositories, and the second is a branch of the
first, but was created using "darcs init" instead of "darcs get", is it
in general worthwhile to "rebase" the second one (i.e. recreate it
manually using darcs get and darcs record --pipe)? Would it make it
easier to merge patches back and forth between them? Or would it be a
waste of time?

I ask because I am considering creating new repository(s) in order to
"rebase"

http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~d00nibro/haskell-src-exts

on

http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/haskell-src

Some considerations:

1. The haskell-src repository contains one Haskell package,
haskell-src. The haskell-src-exts repo actually contains three, only
one of which is based on haskell-src - but I think I'll split it out
into three new repos anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem.

2. However, even if I did the splitting out described in 1, there would
still be file moves involved. Would this prevent darcs from being able
to merge patches automatically? I'm really quite ignorant about darcs'
merging capabilities.

3. This isn't very important since I will probably just manually check
by looking at all the patches in haskell-src-exts - but is there a way
to print the explicit dependencies of a patch, if any? (i.e. those added
by --ask-deps.)

-- 
Robin

P.S. I'll heed Simon's comment in the "Status of darcs" thread about
not adding any conflict patches.