[darcs-users] [darcs-devel] Camp vs Darcs & the future of both

[Eric Kow]

I think we did see Ian last year at a sprint, so I would say Camp is being
worked on… just in its own pace.

I reckon darcs3 is open research, with alternative approaches such as the
graphictors one on the table

http://darcs.net/Ideas/Graphictors

(That page is rather sparse as I write this)



On 31 July 2013 22:43, Kẏra <kxra at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hm, aren't block move diffs something that could exist alongside
> line/word/binary diffs? It seems like while line/word/binary diffs are
> mutually exclusive to each other, block moves can work in conjunction to
> any of them.
>
> You should file a bug report against darcs and add it to the darcsv3 wiki
> page!
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Andreas Wagner <
> andreasbwagner at pointfree.net> wrote:
>
>> Good question! I am also interested to know what the plan is.
>>
>> As for word based diffs I'd actually rather see block move diffs (
>> http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1377&context=cstech) than
>> patches based around yet another arbitrary character that is meaningless
>> in most programming languages. Block moves (p q l) may be more economical
>> as well depending on how patches (with "add" and "remove") are represented
>> now. Also, renaming darcs tracked files would not require a special command
>> anymore.
>>
>> afaik camp does do something like this (offset length).
>>
>> It would be nice to see more development on camp even though the theory
>> and proofs are incomplete (they probably will be in some way for the
>> foreseeble future). In fact, I may just import the camp stuff to my darcs
>> hub and start poking around.
>>
>> - Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Kẏra <kxra at riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone explain the difference between the patch theory behind darcs
>>> and that of camp?
>>>
>>> Also, I was previously under the impression that camp would be darcs v3<http://darcs.net/Darcs3Wishlist>with new diff methods for
>>> binary <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1233> & word based<http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2315>diffing, partial
>>> repo checkouts <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2329>, etc. but camp seems
>>> to be inactive so I'm wondering what the 'plan' is now.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Kẏra
>>>
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