On Friday 09 January 2009, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > http://jfm3-repl.blogspot.com/2009/01/darcs-theory-of-patches-isnt-us > >eful.html > > > > "The "theory of patches" proposed in the Darcs documentation is a > > nice slick theory, but not particularly useful to programmers. It is > > generally impossible to programmaticly determine whether one patch > > must precede another in the revision tree of source code for any > > reasonably complex program. As Tom Moertel describes, it's > > equivalently useful (if not more so) to rebase your code against a > > known good order of patches, rather than to attempt relatively tricky > > merges over the partial order of patches." > > Pretentious blogger makes authoritative statements about things he > hasn't got the vaguest idea about. News at eleven.
Heh, well put. My thoughts exactly. -- Dan _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
