[darcs-users] Fwd: Darcs Problems

[Eric Kow]

Hi all,

It could be worth updating http://darcs.net/Ideas/Branches with any new results/thinking from this discussion.  

As I understood things, darcs devs understand the need for in-repo branches.  Getting a good design for it and making it happen will take a bit more effort.

Now if we could just get packs out the door one of these days…

Cheers,

Eric

On 22 Feb 2013, at 15:37, Michael Hendricks wrote:

> 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.
> 
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