[darcs-users] Fwd: Darcs Problems

[Michael Hendricks]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

> Ben Franksen writes:
>  > No problem, as 'darcs get' gives you a new copy of the sources.
>
> This is slow and requires changing directories to work, not to mention
> a "make world" rather than a "make one .o and relink".


Here's another data point in favor of multiple branches inside a single
directory.  Many developers now work in IDEs or similar tools.  These tools
almost always have a notion of "project" which hardcodes a directory.  If
switching branches requires switching directories, one must have multiple
"projects" and synchronize configuration among them.

I rarely work in an IDE and darcs has caused me grief in this respect.  I
can imagine how IDE-centric developers would feel.

-- 
Michael
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