[darcs-users] Need help getting off darcs

[James D Sadler]

Hi Tommy,

I will give this a try today.  I'll knock up a Ruby script to massage
the inventory file between each pull operation and when I'm done I'll
post the script here.

Thanks,

James.

On 10/01/2008, Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:10:03PM +1100, James D Sadler wrote:
> > can I manipulate the inventory file so that it only
> > contains a reference to one patch, then pull it, then subsequently put
> > each patch back in the inventory file (in order) and pull again,
>
> Yes, removing patches from the top of the inventory should work,
> although the inventory for a large repo is usually split into
> several files. But removing all of them and putting in a single
> inventory file with the single init patch in it should work.
> Actually this will be the same as unrecording patches from the
> top of the repo; unrecord removes the patch entry from the
> inventory, but leaves the patch file intact (for debugging), and
> if the unrecorded patch was on top, no patch reordering /
> commutation is done, so "restoring" the inventory from a backup
> will undo the unrecord.
>
>
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James