[darcs-users] rebase feedback and amend-record flexibility

[Gabriel Kerneis]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 04:26:59PM -0600, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> I agree completely.  I think my proposal would make darcs appear even more
> like a set of changes.  Consider the following two scenarios where patches
> B and C depend on A but not on each other:
> 
>   record A
>   amend B into A
>   record C
> 
>   record A
>   record C
>   amend B into A
> 
> With today's amend-record, the first succeeds and the second fails because
> darcs is paying too much attention to the order in which I record patches.
>  Under my proposal, both would succeed.

UI issue: currently you select the patch you want to amend before selecting the
chunks.  With your proposal, you have to select the chunks before, and you have
no guarantee that it will indeed commute past B and that you will be able to
amend A.

-- 
Gabriel