On 7/22/2009 17:19, Grant Husbands wrote:
Darcs will still have access to:
1) All patches across all branches (that are stored and/or cached locally)
Only superficially correct, as far as I can see. Darcs has access to
the files, yes. What it doesn't have is an accessible record of which
file corresponds to which patch+context. (Even if it reads every
single one, it needs the corresponding inventories to know context for
each.)
You're right, I'm sorry; I had pre-lunch brain-fart... Darcs 1 could
determine patch names from just a context (because the file name used to
be the date+hash of the name), and I don't recall correctly now if darcs
1 did file fetching... but that is besides the point.
Certainly one possible solution here would be to simply carry over the
Hash: lines from the darcs-2 inventory format as (optional) hints for
file paths in context files. Considering the otherwise congruency of the
context and inventory files I would hope this might be something easy to
achieve (and would be useful generally), and I'm hoping the reason it
hasn't been done is simply because it hasn't thought to be done.
In fact, I'm now wondering if it may have been a bug all along that
hashed/darcs-2 repos don't produce (or at least allow to produce)
"hashed contexts".
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--Max Battcher--
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