[darcs-users] How to extend a patch theory to fully commute

[James Cook]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 06:02:49PM +0100, Ben Franksen wrote:
> >> This suggests that we should present the "inactive" portions of a named
> >> patch in a special way e.g. "shaded"or with a bit of extra markup. In
> >> fact this may be superior to how Darcs operates today, where hitting 'v'
> >> on a conflictor shows you its internal representation, which isn't too
> >> helpful.
> > 
> > By hitting v do you mean passing -v to darcs changes? Or am I missing
> > some cool Darcs UI?
> 
> Indeed! Try 'darcs log -i' (for interactive). For each patch you are
> presentetd with a menu of keys to get more detailed information about
> the patch. This is the same when you pull or push or whatever. Hitting
> '?' will display help about the available keys.
> 
> Example:
> 
> >darcs log -i
> patch a4b12fc212dadeacd92c47b262ff999db6451a69
> Author: Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de>
> Date:   Tue Nov  3 00:39:30 CET 2020
>   * resolve issue2632: remove context from patch bundles
> 
>   The function makeBundle has one less parameter now and is pure.
> Shall I view this patch? (1/?) [yN...], or ? for more options: ?
> How to use view changes:
> y: view this patch and go to the next
> n: skip to the next patch
> 
> v: view this patch in full
> p: view this patch in full with pager
> r: view this patch
> x: view a summary of this patch
> 
> q: quit view changes
> k: back up to previous patch
> j: skip to next patch
> g: start over from the first patch
> c: count total patch number
> 
> ?: show this help
> 
> <Space>: accept the current default (which is capitalized)
> 
> Cheers
> Ben

Thanks, that will be useful!

-- 
James