On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:15:51PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Instead of layering (totally ordered) branches over Darcs, why not
> explore the possibility of naming subsets of the repo (while
> respecting the preorder)?  Maybe you could (eg) "block" a patch from
> being pulled (cf http://www.orcaware.com/svn/wiki/Svnmerge.py).  You
> could do things like create "features" as a subset of patches.  "Add
> up" the features to configure your app!
> 
> This is already implicit in patch theory as I understand.  What
> Darcs doesn't provide yet is a powerful, simple way to name and
> manipulate these subsets, except in a clumsy way be creating a new
> repo.

+1

Could we (easily) get some of the way to this by allowing "darcs tag"
to select patches to include in the tag?
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