[darcs-users] Upcoming 2.8

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On 24/02/2012 20:01, Ben Franksen wrote:
> Michael Hendricks wrote:
>> I suspect that 2.8 will not contain rebase.  The associated issue
>> hasn't been updated in almost 2 years: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue938
>> The package darcs-beta on Hackage doesn't seem to have rebase
>> functionality and I see no mentions of rebase in the screened
>> repository.
> 
> Yeah, thanks. I was secretly hoping.
> 
> Wasn't there a branch at one time that actually implemented something? I 
> dimly remember something like a 'deep amend-record'...
> 
>> It's too bad.  Rebase functionality would be convenient and a good
>> marketing feature.
> 
> Indeed.

Apologies. It's mostly stalled for the last year or so when I got
distracted by various other things. I also lost some of my motivation
for working on it when ghc switched to git.

There is still a branch that you can use:
http://urchin.earth.li/darcs/ganesh/darcs-branches/rebase-20110110/

I haven't dropped it and I'm definitely planning on getting it finished,
just not sure when yet :-/ Feedback still welcome.

There's a report on the status at
http://wiki.darcs.net/Ideas/RebaseStatus though I think it's a bit out
of date.
Essentially the big things left to do were to handle explicit
dependencies properly and also to deal with conflicts in a nicer way.

Cheers,

Ganesh