[darcs-users] Pulling a patch *without* its dependences?

[Miklos Vajna]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:31:03PM +0100, Andrew Durdin <adurdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying darcs to see if it'll help me maintain a private fork of a
> public Subversion repository (for backporting bugfixes and select
> enhancements). I'm using Tailor to mirror the svn repos into a darcs
> repos called "master"; and I have a separate darcs repos called "fork"
> which will hold my changes.
> 
> Now I only want to pull certain patches from the master repos, but
> some of these have dependencies that I don't want.  For example,
> pulling r5302 wants to pull r5232, but I don't want the changes from
> r5232.  Is there some way I can find out which parts of r5302 are
> causing the dependency, so that I can create a new patch to support
> r5302 without needing the full r5232 patch?

http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/vmiklos/tailor-hackfest/tailor-wrap/darcs

earlier i created this very ugly wrapper to work around this problem. i
think it still works. i wish others will show you a more proper way :)

- VMiklos
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