[darcs-users] quadratic _user_ time when recording!

Simon Marlow simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 09:40:29 UTC 2008


Isaac Dupree wrote:
> This is strictly(?) a user-interface bug:
> 
> I have lots of unrecorded changes (say, n hunks).  I want to record them 
> into logical patches (say, m patches... m is likely proportional to n). 
>   Darcs can only record one patch at once, so I have to go through the 
> decreasing list of hunks each time... O(n*m) of my human time!

Emacs and darcsum mode alleviate this quite a bit, becauase you get to 
navigate the list of hunks in the editor and select/deselect the ones you want.

Cheers,
	Simon


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