In the days before arch2darcs, I "converted" some projects from ArX by just dropping the source tree into darcs (without the history). Now, after recording new patches, I would like to use arch2darcs to recover the ArX history, and would appreciate comments on whether my technique is viable.
The original "conversion" produced one large patch. If I had used arch2darcs in the first place, then instead of the large patch, I would have a series of small patches from the conversion, and the aggregate effect of these small patches would equal that of the large patch. Therefore I think I should be able to use arch2darcs to produce the small patches, and then edit a copy of the current repository, and replace the large patch, in its inventory, with the series of small patches (copy the replacement patches into _darcs/patches and replace the relevant entry in _darcs/inventory). (I realise this could be bad if other people had pulled the patch being replaced, but in my case I doubt this will be a problem.) Can anyone confirm that I should be able to get away with editing a repo so as to replace a patch by a series of patches that have the same effect ? Tim _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
