[darcs-users] Git v. Darcs: megapatches and 'darcs shunt'

[Eric Kow]

[Sparing GHC hackers from this sort of musing...]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 16:58:05 -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> I'm nervous about it too.  What if you mix uses with and without --reorder?

[lots of asking the right sort of questions snipped]

You should consider providing us with Grumpy Old Man service
more often.  We need more people to carefully consider how
things interact and what their consequences are...

> What about a user who habitually pulls from two different repos, not
> just one* -- the behavior is probably clear enough, just might be
> surprising.
...

> Is the behavior even possible to implement?  Can it be implemented
> in faster than O(n) in all patches in the history?

I didn't think very hard about it.  Without knowing 100% what I'm
saying, I assume it's basically just a matter of flipping our notion
of "us" and "them" in our merging code.  I just figured darcs pull
--reorder would basically work like a darcs push might (or the
other repository pulling your patches) modulo working directory.

But maybe you and Ganesh are right that a standalone operation would
be better.

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