[darcs-users] revision identifiers

[Miklos Vajna]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 03:34:15AM +0000, Declan Naughton <piratepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> In revision control systems like Mercurial and git, every time the
> repository is updated (recorded to in darcs terms) a new revision
> identifier is associated with it's new state, so that it can be
> referred to for checkouts and such.
> 
> In darcs, users MUST MANUALLY use tags, this I consider quite a
> downfall. Would it be a bad or a good idea for darcs to checksum the
> context and record this with records, and, (being the revision
> identifier) printing this out in 'darcs changes', providing for 'darcs
> get --rev=xxxxxxxxx' etc?
> 
> Or what am I overlooking?

yes, and no :)

in git, you operate with trees. in darcs, you operate with patches. so
if you want to have a given state of the tree, then you need tags, yes.

though, every patch has a hash, so in most cases, a darcs get --to-match
"hash foo.gz" should do what you need.

but definitely this is a feature, not a shortcoming, i think.
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